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Storage Protect Family

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    change tape read/write throughput rates

    Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

    (See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

    Configuration: Replica source Storage is container pool only Copy pool exist on tape Replica target Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days Copy pool exist on tape Scenario When the source detects a bad file/object with a...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

    Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

    Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

    Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

    For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed. Example: /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

    Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus ability to offload historical Data

    We need the ability to offload historical data to ICOS.The customer had an environment backing up for approximately 12 months before ICOS was implemented and we started offloading.The customer wanted all its historical data offloaded to ICOS howev...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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