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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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No quiesce option for VM backup

Along TSM-VE implementation, I have observed that lots of errors are generated due to virtual machine quiescence errors. Beause TSM has no control on how the operating systems are configured, and if there is any issue with the in guest VSS tools, ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

Support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup

Each individual VMDK involved in a backup operation cannot exceed2 TB on TSM for VE V7.1. Request for support of exceeding 2TB VMDK backup. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/r_ve_hwreqs.html?resultof=%22...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

TSM-VE: Enable the per VM multithread (process multiple vmdk from within a single backup job)

The idea is to be able to process more than one vmdk at a time, within a single VM backup job.This would help a lot to handle huge virtual machine, by decreasing the overall backup elapsed time (as well as increasing the overall backup performance...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Backup of NSX-T network interfaces in SP for VE

Spectrum Protect for VE needs to include VMware NSX virtual networking devices in the backups of the VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infrastructure for VMware, which is configured via tagging of virtual NIC devices to a VM.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Exclude Single Disks during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of a virtual machine. This enhancement will result in tremendous data reduction.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Delivered

Data Protection for VMware Support for vSphere 6.7

The latest version of Data Protection for VMWare, v8.1.4, supports vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels. VSphere 6.7 is out, when will this be supported?
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM for VE: Instant Restore for full VM Restore

Currently TSM for VE only supports near instant restore for singe disks/volumes/file systems. For a restore of a whole virtual machine, no instant restore is possible. One possibility to provide this functionality would be following: 1. Make the T...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

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