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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM for Virtual Environments instant restore via NFS

Full VM instant restore should be possible via NFS for customers without iSCSI storage (eg SAN or VSAN)
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Define schedule 512 characters limitation

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21584359 Limitation of 512 character when defining a schedule
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Memory Quesing with VM Backup

Please allow the choice to snap a vm's memory or not in the backup. as when full memory is captured on a vm with a large memory set (64 gb in this case) if a vmdk is near full the snap can easliy fill it.also non-memory snaps run faster
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE

TDP For VE is trying to make backup VMWARE machines, that are not online.We have 2 DataCenter using SRM.this is a horrible situation to manage on a large environment.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

BPA

ANS2687W The virtual machine 'SVBMFIL01' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit (2TB). Specify the '-VMSKIPMAXVMDKS=yes' option to exclude these disks from the backup. making snapshot backup
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Ability to specify different retention policies for different drives

Ability for TSM for VE to specify different retention policies for different drives in a single VM.Same request as ID# 41739
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Exclusions by VM hardware version

The ability to exclude VMs based on hardware type.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhance exclude/include Single Disks processing during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of virtual machines specified using wild cards.Currently exclude/include.vmdisk statements containing wild cards a...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

Enhancing TMS4VE vCloud support to select destination datastore/datastore cluster in restore wizard

Implementing a dialogue to select destination datastore/datastore cluster when resoring a vApp with showing up the status enough or not enough space available like RFE 47160.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing TSM4VE vCloud support to delete an existing vApp while restoring it

Enhancing the restore wizard to allow to specify an option to delete an existing vApp before restoring it and recreating while restoring it.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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