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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: Improve the datamover backup tasks distribution, and improve the load balancing options available to the datamover

We have seen in many large TSM-VE implementation that the multithread options from TSM-VE 6.4 is a good feature, but has its limit relatively quickly.
I think we should have a way to identify and display the load pushed on ESXi hosts & clusters & datastore by backup operations. I'm thinking to have such, somehow, in the vCenter plug-in for instance, as a report (e.g "backup load report") . This would help folks to have a clearer picture of what is going under the cover, and provide a great set of information to better tune up the backup tasks by re distribute the backup load.
In the meantime.
In addition, I would like to see some enhancement around stats to be able to easily figure out that the limitation (when reached) is not necessarly a TSM/TSM-VE one, but a datastore I/O limit, or max number of snapshot per ESXi hosts, or also maximum NFC connection (when NBD is used) ... and so on ...

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     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 but unfortunately we will not be able to implement a solution in the next year or two given higher prioritization of other TSM for VE enhancement requests. We will continue to track this one internally. If after the next release of TSM you would like us to reconsider, please resubmit the RFE. We appreciate your continued involvement and support in making our products better.

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