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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Execute failed VM backups within schedule

TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE VC Plugin - Scheduled Reporting

Currently within the TSM for VE 6.4 VC Plugin the reporting option allows you to generate a report. I would like the addition of a scheduled report generation option to automatically update and send the content of the report to a distribution list...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Improve tape restores

We notice that when an VM Incremental Forever backup is to be restored (or mounted) a lot repeated tape mounts are performed and it takes a long time. For instance, if in one of the tapes there is several chunks of data from different backup dates...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclude vm disks in the TSM4VE GUI (or select/include only particular disks to be backed up for a VM)

We utilise TSM4VE to take backups of the system disk only of virtual servers like SQL. TSM4VE requires manual entries in the dsm.opt file. This is cumbersome and error prone, and having inclusions for disks available in the GUI would make this pro...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Faster Single File Restore (TSM for VE) from Tape (Block Level Backup IFE)

With large capacity VM's (several TB's) that also have a requirement for long retention policies, tape is still the most cost effective storage medium.In a commercially driven environment, it is very difficult to convince customers that we require...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

File-level restore option in TSM4VE with Cloud - Container Storage Pool

Ref : PMR 79682,070,724As per technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659833 when using combination of TSM4VE and cloud container storage pool , the option of file level restore is not there.File level restore always needed , b...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add search option to backup VMs.

Adding option to search for VM's instead of opening each and every ESXI in order to find our VM.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Issue taking VM snapshot using TDP for VMWare for vmdk size greater than 2TB

Hello Team, We have an environment where we have TSM server(6.3.4) based on AIX 6.1 OS. We have a proxy server which is based on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. We have installed TSM for BA Client 7.1 and TDP for Virtual Environments 7.1 on the Proxy se...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

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