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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-...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

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

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 GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM for VE VC Plugin - Scheduled Reporting

Currently within the TSM for VE 6.4 VC Plugin the reporting option allows you to generate a report. I would like the addition of a scheduled report generation option to automatically update and send the content of the report to a distribution list...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release