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lssoftwareupgradestatus detail

Hello developer,we have some customers where we upgraded FW of storwize. During upgrade customer sked me what is happening now. Information from lssoftwareupgradestatus command is now usefull. Customer expect more detailed information as "copying ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Weekly Monthly and Yearly

The customer is an MSP and would like to save weekly, monthly and yearlys. He is new to TSM and would like to have tape rotation for audit purposes. The only way to do this in TSM today is 1) archive which creates a lot of duplicated data 2) backu...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

Resources privilages, roles and security rules

Hello Developers,we have problem to reach bank security requirements on Storwize. We produced linux shell solution to reach requirements for clusters, but problem is still in vmware and monitoring. Problem is that we can't define user group which ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

TSM UPGRADE TO 7.1 CAUSES CLIENTS PASSWORD TO BE INVALID AND BACKUPS ARE NO LONGER POSSIBLE UNTIL AGENT IS RECYCLED!!

We upgraded to TSM 7.1 on yesterday in our smallest TSM environment. However, we experienced one hiccup that is extremely alarming. As clients connect to the TSM server after the upgrade, they are unable to communicate with the TSM server because ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

FCM CBT support for power-off VMs

Change block tracking is not supported without a snapshot. FCM doesn't take a snapshot of power-off VMs before the Backup, so CBT is not working and a full VM Backup is performed
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

FCM VM_DONT_QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT

TSM FCM for VMware lack of support for no QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

VE Restore from GUI no search button

unable to search for a specific vm to restore

FlashCopy Manager version 4.1 support for DB2 version 9.7

We installed xcli v.3.1.1 for FCM 3.2 The configuration failed as the system indicated that xcli v2.3.1 was required. So we don't understand how it can fail if v3.1.x is one of the supported and tested versions for FCM 3.2. Can they please avail t...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC - Unsuccessful Login Attempts Notification

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC - Unsuccessful Login Attempts

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered