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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 25, 2013

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TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:
- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It will allow to have a list and then to be able to take appropriate actions manually or ... 
- to build a new dsmc backup vm option or flag that perform the cleaning operation automatically. The idea is to clean all non commited snapshots, obvisouly after some cross checks that there is no backup on going ( considering snapshots as non commited only when they are older than 24 hours, for instance)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 20, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. We understand the requirement and are tracking this internally. Unfortunately we will not be able to implement a solution in the next year or two. If you would like us to reconsider, please resubmit the RFE. We appreciate your input and support in making our products better.

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 15, 2014

    This RFE would be off great help at my customers. They do not trust TSM for VE in backing up ESX because the orphend snapshots and even wors there VM's run on a snapshot after a failed backup and not on the normal VMK file.

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