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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

TSM4VE exclude hdisks from snapshot

On busy systems, snapshotting and consolidating disks with high change rate result in using considerable ressources and may create unwanted downtimes.Excluding the disks from backup still results in snapshots beeing taken. The request is to have t...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Exclude pagefile and c:\temp

Hello, It would be good to exclude from image backup by default the systempagefile and hiberfile (like veeam do). Additional excludes like c:\temp could improve some backup situation. Greetings Horst Groh
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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