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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Search results: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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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).

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

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.

VM search when restoring - tsm for ve plugin/site

A way to search or select a vm to restore once you click on "initiate a restore" _without_ specifying a host.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Full VM restores place the VM in the parent Datacenter folder and Resource group

When doing a full VM restore and selecting "Original Location", the VM is restored to the parent Data Center folder and parent Resource group in Virtual Center. Given VM permissions can be managed at the folder level in Virtual Center, when a rest...