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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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Snapshot compatibility with FS7200 / NVMe Disk

We were checking this document and realize that FS7200 is not in the list, this config is made based on FCM / NVme disk.This is an environment which includes Power server and FS7200 like a said before and the needs for the Spectrum Protect Snaphot...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

security issue with ssh key authentication

To allow dynamic volume creation during backup operations, you must enable remote access to the storage system with private and public Secure Shell (SSH) keys. But we do not allow access to a storage system without entering a password. Otherways i...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Change request of task priority.

On behalf of customer, IBM account team write,-Change task priority of backup tasks and reconcile task.Based on current design, reconcile and backup(snapshot) can not run parallel.During backing up, if the reconcile task starts backup task gets de...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

One device class should be defined for one device(SVC) regardless of backup jobs

Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware with SVC device require each device class for each backup job now.The product should be defined one device class for 1 device regardless of backup jobs.The product also require each target set for each backup j...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Remove mandatory parameters database_name and instance_name for mount/unmount operations of Oracle and OraSAP

For the mount operation of Oracle and OraSAP snapshots without TAPE_BACKUP_PENDING usability state, the parameters "-d database_name" and "-i instance_name" are mandatory, but actually not needed. The backup_id parameter should be enough to find o...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Flash copy manager support for RHEL 6.8

Currently there is no FCM version released for RHEL(Redhat enterprise Linux) 6.8. The latest version of FCM 4.1.6 does support RHEL 7, but don't support RHEL 6.8. Currently our environment is running on RHEL 6.7 with FCM 4.1.4 and we are in the pr...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Let Spectrum Protect Shapshot Support the SQL Server 2008 SP1

The customer want to construct the online backup of SQL server.Hypervisor is HyperV (Windows 2012) and SQL Server is 2008 SP1.The customer expect the Spectrum Protect Snapshot make it.However, Spectrum Protect Snapshot support not SQL Server 2008S...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Offload restore

There us already a function for offload backup. This works great. I would very much like a offload restore (not lanfree). Data would flow from tsm server to a offload host on dedicated luns. Once complete, the luns would be dismounted from the off...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FlashCopy Manager) support for SAP HANA

Enable IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to take a hardware based snapshot for a system running SAP HANA on either IBM Linux on Power or Linux. In essence addition of SAP HANA to the already supported applications/databases of IBM Spectrum Protect Sna...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Cloning support for custom applications

Add support for cloning of custom application filesystems to support creating and refreshing development and test environments.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered