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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 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

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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

SP4VE File Level REcovery AD Trusted relationship environment

Today when implementing File Level Recovery(FLR) there is requirement of having the Windows Mount Proxy in the same Active Directory as the target virtual machines (the one to be recovered). What we would like to have is the ability to leverage AD...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM for VE in AWS

Ability to run TSM for VE in AWS
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Restore of VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced

This is feedback from a customer using the product, customer name are availble upon content with us but it is a Swedish government agency. Customer are on 7.1.1.300 level. The restore process of a VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced. During re...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

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