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Prevent ESS reading /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices file

Spectrum Scale uses a file called /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices to determine the path names for disk devices to be used by Scale. This file is not supposed to exist on an ESS system. However, if present, it will be read. If present, it breaks the ESSs'...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to attach/restore volumes

Currently the TSM4VE vCenter Plugin only allows to restore a whole VM. To restore single volumes of a VM or to mount a volume in order to restore single files, a separate GUI (TSM4VE Recovery Agent) must be started. It is required to have this fun...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Multiple AD servers for Scale CES

Currently, Spectrum Scale CES only supports the addition of a single AD server for SMB authentication. We have encountered a couple of events where a communication issue with that DC results in auth services on the CES node(s) going offline, requi...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Delivered

Tivoli TSM clustering

There should be an functionality to configure existing TSM instance into windows 2008 r2 cluster.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

DS8886 should allow query of FICON/FCP connectivity

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's in our environment and frequently have connectivity issues for our FICON and FCP ports. Unfortunately, we do not have any visibility within the DS8886 to the connection (if any) at the other end of the cable....
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

TSM DB backups via HW snapshot

Enable backups of TSM's own internal DB by using hardware's snapshot ability in a way that updates archive logs appropriately, just as if a "real" DB backup was done.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

VMware Backup Support for Vapps using Vstorage API & Exclude Raw Device Mapping Disk

The DSMC client using the "Backup VM" command fails to see and backup any virtual machines on a ESXi v4.1 server. This is somewhat critical for a Enterprise environment where we use Vapps to manage our servers! The Vstorage API shrinks the backup ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

Storwize - Increase to host mapping limit

The limit of host mappings of 20000 in the past had been sufficient when the number of hbas per host allowed was 512. Since this was downgraded in 7.5 this has meant our large clusters had a large increase in the number of host mappings required. ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add DEDUP_DEVICE option to DB2 (Offload) backup to TSM

The Offlload backup of a snapshot to TSM doesn't support the DB2 Backup command option of DEDUP_DEVICE, which optimises de-duplication of the backup images and significantly reduces backup storage.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

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