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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Multiple schedules backup per VM Tags

There is not possible to backup VMs with multiple VM Tags. The Tag category "Schedule" is in settings "One tag". Using tags is in this reason very limited.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

RHV/oVirt support in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments currently supports VMware and Hyper-V. This is a request for support of RHV/oVirt, as well.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SP4VE FLR - interaction with CyberArk API for

Today, security is in the center of backup and even more recovery procedure. My customer, big insurance is asking that SP4VE is more integrated with security components and external authentication mechanism.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under 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

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.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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