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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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

Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future 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.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore virtual machine WITHOUT recovering specific disks

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V suite offers the option to exclude certain disks when restoring a virtual machine. See page 159 of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Version 8.1.9 - ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSMve filerestoreUI and Windows Workgoup

The ability to restore from the new web interface "filerestoreUI" windows machines that are not integrated into a Windows domain (in workgroup mode)
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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