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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

Data Protection for VMware - vSphere 9 support

As we need to update to vSphere 9, could you please support this release? Data Protection for VMware supports vSphere 8.0 only (beginning with 8.1.17). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/requirements-documents-ibm-storage-protect-virtual-environments
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Please add VMWare cloud Foundation 9 to the supported hypervisors.

We have customers that still use Storage protect for virtual environments and Broadcom forces them to change to VMWare Cloud Foundation in the near future and if Storage Protect does not support this they have to switch the an other backup tool.
18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

More detailed error messages with vCenter plugin

When the VMware SSL certificate is changed, the vCenter plugin stops reporting any SP-VE configuration. Displaying a more descriptive message, such as ‘SP-VE GUI unavailable’ or a warning about a connection/SSL issue, would help customers understa...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Future consideration

Support for VMware v9.0

Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Under review

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Needs more information

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Needs more information

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