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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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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 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.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Security non compliance with Windows VM self-service file-level restore requiring a Domain administrator account

Spectrum Protect for VE Self-Service file-level restore uses the domain administrator credentials to access network shares on the remote virtual machine.This is seen in many cases as a gab in the security and a risk of security non compliance for ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Allow signed certificates instead of only self-signed for TSM TDP VMWare GUI website

The certificate being used for the website is self-signed and give a error in browser and VMware Vsphere client
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - aplication awareness for Oracle DB and Sybase DB as already exists with 7.1.3 for Exchange and Microsoft SQL

System: TSM for VE - Oracle and Sybase DBsActor: Tivoli Storage AVP client needing support for Oracle and Sybase DBs on TSM for VE TSM for VE currently provides aplication awareness and consistency for Microsof Exchange and SQL - this is required ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE snapshots

System: TSM for VE 6.4.0New feature request for future release Description: TSM for VE requests VM snapshot creation at the beginning of a backup and snapshot removal at backup completion. No monitoring is done to ensure the snapshot has been remo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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