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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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
over 6 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.
over 6 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.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - DP for VMware - Tag support

The ability to exlude or include VMs based on tags, or take tags into consideration somehow. Regardless of what cluster they live in, look at tags to determine what to do.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Self service file restore from tape - support for multiple volume mounts

Using self service file restore GUI if customer is having more than one volume to restore, the single file restore is failing from tape. The same thing works excellently from DISK. Since most of the customers stores their data on tape, its difficu...
over 8 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 cluster 3)      Granular restore of guest data 4) ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 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.
almost 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.
about 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.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration