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Storage Protect Family

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    Report of unprotected VMs

    Dashboard and "Protected VMs" report on which VMs are protected and it also reports on number of unprotected VMs but not which VMs are unprotected.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

    Snapdiff backup support for SP 8.1.4.1 Windows client and OnTap 9.3P2

    We currently use Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 client to do SnapDiff backup of OnTap 8.3.2P7 file shares. We would like to be able to do the same using Spectrum Protect 8.1.4.x doing SnapDiff backups of OnTap 9.3P2 file shares. This functionality is crit...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

    Move data from tapes to container storage pools

    There should be a way for people who want to abandon tapes to move their existing data to disk, in most recent format - container storage pools. As there is feature introduced with 7.1.6 to convert file based legacy storage pools to new container ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

    Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

    We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

    Allow for parallel-stream restores, using DP for SAP HANA

    In http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZHVN_7.1.3/erp.hana/c_dperp_saphana_planperf.html, the manual states that parallel-session BACKUP and RESTORE is possible in DP for SAP HANA 7.1.3. That is not the case, as discovered in named PMR. B...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Delivered

    Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

    Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

    TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

    We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

    Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

    TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Internet Explorer 8 and beyond.

    TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support IE8 and beyond. It needs to support IE8 and beyond for currency in our environment.
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Delivered

    Operations Center - add activity log details for server maintenance

    Customer would like to have the ability to view related Spectrum Protect server activity log records pertaining to server maintenance activities reported in the Operations Center. As of now, the OC reports little more than success/failure.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Delivered

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