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Search results: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Multisite Connect

When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

More flexible VMTAG processing

Version 7.1.6 gave us the possibility to use VMware TAGs to help control the exclusion of a VM and the Spectrum Protect (TSM) management class a VM should use. Even if this is a great improvement, I think that it could easily be extended to give u...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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