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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V backup of a Hyper-V guest that has a disk hosted on another Hyper-V node
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM/VE support for vsphere 5.5

What is the road map for TSM for VE to support vsphere 5.5? Currently the latest version of VE 6.4.1 supports up to 5.1
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backups whitout vmware quiescing

If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments Server Backup Sets

Requesting the ability for TSM4VE to be able to create group listings of servers to do backups and restores. Basically the ability to say that if we want to restore an application enviornment which spans multiple servers, we can restore that set o...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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