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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Password is removed when entering the configuration tab on TSM for VE 7.1.1

We need a patch to TSM for VE so when you open configuration tab you do not removed any information specify the password for the system account.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM FOR VE: Specify management class for vm full backups

When you run the recommended backup strategy IFINCR for VM backups, then the first backup is an IFFULL backup.In our strategy, we place the IFFULL-Backup in an other storage pool which is later migrated to tape.The following IFINCR-Backups are pla...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE / More fine granular user priviliges for Web GUI

Currently, the vSphere access permissions for any vSphere user that wants to use TDP for VMware GUI must be defined on datacenter level. That means, every user always sees everything and ALL VMs under the specified datacenter. He can do backup and...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE

after a backup occurs in VE the Vm goes into a hanging state and locks the VM, only once the server is restarted then the problem goes away. when the backup methodology is changed to TDP for VMware, file and SOL then the issues goes away and the s...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Tsm4ve in vcloud mode can only use wild card to select, not de-select

With TSM4VE backing up a vsphere cluster, it is easy with a -vm option, and wildcards to exclude vm's from backing up. When pointing to a Vcloud Director, and backing up vapps, you can include vapps with wildcards, but not exclude them. Every VAPP...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM backup solution for KVM

We are looking for online backup solution for KVM.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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)
almost 10 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
almost 10 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
almost 10 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.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

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