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TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Storwize tape target

Ability to enable tape target mode on Storwize.Today, VTL are very common and IBM has discontinued its Protectier solution. Now that Storwize can do compression and deduplication, we could technically add tape target mode code on Storwize and enab...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy bitmap with Spectrum Copy Data Management

When using Spectrum Virtualize in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, if the flashcopy bitmap capacity fills, the Spectrum Virtualize instance will warmstart a node without warning. Spectrum Copy Data Management orchestrates the sc...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

SPP Needs fallback for vmx-04 (without cbt = full)

Spectrum Protect Plus does not backup VMs with virtual machine hardware version (vmx) 04, because this version does not support CBT (changed block tracking). Spectrum Protect VE does backup these machines but makes a full backup every time (fallba...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE Cleanup Abandoned Snapshots

TSM4VE should track its own snapshots, and periodically clean these up if no active backups are using those snapshots. Presently, if a backup is aborted, or proxy node rebooted, or etc., the VMWare snapshots created by that backup are never cleane...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Container pool in same TSM server

Migrate data between Container pools in same TSM server is not possible at the moment, The only way to do this is to set up a node replication to another tsm server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Single Pool spanning multiple controllers data placement

Requesting an option on a storage pool spanning multiple control enclosures for extents for each volume to be placed on the mdisks local to the access control enclosure/io group
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Flexibility to connect SVC for Public CLoud to any Cloud Provider

In the SVC User Group, we had a conversation with Michelle. In working for the Federal Government, we have franchise customers who have a desire to decide their own Cloud provider, but then utilize us to provision and configure storage for them. W...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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