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TSM for Virtual Machines LAN Free Backup Limitations

Faster VMware virtual machine backup. Using LAN Free, you can only start backup for as many virtual machines as you have tape drives available. This puts a severe limitation on the number of virtual machines that you can simultaneously backup. Thi...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Patra:SAS Tape Problem

We would like TSM to supoort SAS Tape. TSM detect TS3100 as LTO device class but TSM detect SAS tape as GENERIC. So we can't restore data with different device class. SAS Tape Model:7216-1U2IBM Multi-media Enclosure - DAT160 SAS Tape Drive - HHLTO...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive Deleted Data

I would like the ability to archive inactive data as well as active data at a directory (folder) level.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 7 Not under consideration

Password sync between NODE ADMIN and NODE.

Password generation on Administrators with NODE access, to keep it in sync with automatically updated NODE passwords. In order to prevent message ANR0470W, when using VSS backups.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc)

BMR -TSM client should contain a very small set of files to run on WinPE (w/o java etc).TSM Client is bigger than the rest of a WinPE BootCD and also containing unneeded files like JAVA. This need more time to load the image into RAM during boot a...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

TSM to have capability to use DAR for multiple file level restore in NDMP

I have a TSM-NAS setup using NDMP protocol. The TSM node that I use is considered as a NAS node. NAS setup in TSM server was implemented to backup EMC NS960. I found out during one of my restores that I can not do multiple file level restore using...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

More ways to get occupancy on data en dedup storage

In a hosted environment it would be nice, if there were several different/more advanced ways to get occupancy amount for data stored in deduplication storage pools.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

TSM client parameter ERRORLOGMAX implementation unusable for SONAS

Solution does require 1) Limit the log size of dsmerror.log2) Wrapping commands to implement a CLI just simply list the contents of the log file, meraning an implementation is required that starts listing the oldest entry first and the last entry ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Generate Backupset enhancements

We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all the MDisks (IE 2% is not large enough to be spread across 3 MDisks in the pool it would be spread to only 2. This would b...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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