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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Automate vCenter certificate import into Data Protection for VMware GUI truststore during Installation/Upgrade

Starting from Data Protection for VMware 8.1.23 and later, administrators must manually perform additional post-installation/post-upgrade configuration to establish trusted communication between the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI and VMwar...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

Add entry to a vm's filespace that will indicate its state

We monitor current vmware backup by checking filespaces for last backup date. When that date is no longer updated for a few days, we record an event (an error) and someone must check why it is longer being back'ed up. Several reasons for this exis...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

TDP for Nutanix agent in future version

Hello Team, We have been working on migration from VMware to Nutanix AHV, i have been exploring whether we can take backup of these VM's in AHV cluster using the TDP for VE, unfortunately it is not supported, My Idea is here to include or develop ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

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.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

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
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Unable to configure VM Backup for Nutanix using the existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Hello Team, Due to some requirement our VM are been migrated from existing ESXi environment to Nutanix and now we realized that we are unable to configure the Backups for the VM's using existing solution Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments C...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

Support for unlimited VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS size

We are start using TSM for VMware again after a few years using a different vendor. But during our migration we see that the maxlimit for a VMDK is still 8TB are we are VMs that has much larger VMDK files. We need to be able to increase this value...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

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