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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Skip VM that are powered off

In a Vmfull backup situation TSM is trying to backup SRM copies of a VMs that are currently powered off resulting in VM backup failures. There should be a more granular way to exclude VMs and Vmfolders including the ones that are powered off
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

VMware dissimilar recovery

Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling

Enhance the limitations of the ‚options=‘-Flag of TSM Schedules.Today: 512 Characters Limitation. Must be >= 2048 Characters to cover more than 30 VMs per schedule
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Hyper-V Cloud Backup

Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should not backup vSPhere vCLS VMs

The vCLS VMs should be fully ignored by Spectrum Protect for vSphere. IBM support could not help with the problem, but recommended me to submit an RFE for this.See:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GU...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Update documentation to configure multiple dsmcad services on RHEL 7.x

Please update the documentation about "Manually configuring multiple client acceptor services on a Linux system" (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.2/ve.inst/t_ve_cfg_setmulticadslnx.html) for RHEL 7.xBasically, the technote 2...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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