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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Hyper-V support on Windows Nano or Core servers

Customer has about to move from VMware to Hyper-V for the hypervisor. They are going to install Hyper-V on Windows Nano or Core and they are looking for either of these to become a supported platform for the Data Mover and the Recovery Agent.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Restoring a single VMDK

I am trying to restore just 2VMDKS ( 70GB in total) for a virtual machine but I fail if I do not have the storage capacity to restore the whole virtual machine ( approx 840GB) .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support on Windows 2016

Our VM team would like to upgrade their environment but are limited to only be able to run the TSM for VE software on a Windows 2016 server.TSM for VE is not currently supported on Windows 2016.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Restore Point in time to an alternate location or to the original SQL Server with a different name

Customer needs the functionality to restore a SQL database which was backed up using ISP4VE to an alternate location and to to a log roll forward until a specified point in time.Also the restore with a different SQL database name is required.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Custom certificate for TSM-VE for VMware plugin

I would like to get an interface or at least a procedure (commands) to replace the builtin autogenerated certificate push in TSM-VE plugin for VMware. Actually, we need to manually install this autogenerated certificate on each new machine that co...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

support Datamover and Proxy 8.1.6 on Windows Server 2016 SAC (not LTSC)

Consider to add support for Windows Server 2016 LTSC and Windows Server 2016 SAC for Datamover and Proxynode TSM for VE 8.1.6
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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