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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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SP4VE File Level REcovery AD Trusted relationship environment

Today when implementing File Level Recovery(FLR) there is requirement of having the Windows Mount Proxy in the same Active Directory as the target virtual machines (the one to be recovered). What we would like to have is the ability to leverage AD...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Support for Hyper-V guests on SMB MS Scale-Out File Cluster

Support is required for TSM4VE Hyper-V when Hyper-V guests are placed on a Windows Scale-Out File Server Cluster (SMB).
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM for VE GUI Improvements.

1.- Currently when we go to scheduler a backup/restore of VMs we need to expand the datacenter and then expand esx by esx in order to look for the VM. This doesn't like to the customers, especially when they have many ESXs. We need to see all VMs ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE - Add support for Multiple vCenter & TSM Servers

Add the functionality for configuring multiple vCenter and TSM Servers to on the same TSM for VE (VMware) GUI. This will allow customers to be able to manage multiple vCenter servers and also to manage backups to multiple TSM Servers.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Multiple vcenter's configured in TSM Data Protection for VMWare

We use TSM VMWare Data protection for backing up our vms regularly. We are currently have to allocate additional servers in order to point to each vcenter. Enabling the software to be configured for multiple vcenters would be helpful.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM FOR VE ( for vmware) option to exclude drives when performing Virtual Machine backups

Within tsm for VE , would need an option to exclude specific disks ( vmware esx vmdk ) .By exclude I mean ( do not backup the data in those containers ) but backup the metadata , so that they would be recreated during VM restore ( but empty )
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7 Delivered

ISP4VE- Additional Tagging documentation for powershell

In the user´s guide there is no example or explanation how to set tags via powershell. It´s mentioned that for example the quiescing paramter can be set manual via powershell but not how...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Naming for the VMWare snapshot generated by TSM4VE

The naming of the VMware snapshots generated by TSM4VE during backup activity should be customizable. You can see if a snapshot is generated by TSM4VE because the properties of a TSM4VE generated snapshot includes a "TSMBackup" information,but a t...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Multiple VMware webclient plug-in registrations in one VCenter server

Customer would like to have the possibility of multiple TSM4VE plug-in registrations on the same vCenter server. In case customers are using more than one Spectrum Protect TDP configurations within one VSphere environment, multiple DP GUI connecti...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

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