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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.

After upgrading, an ESXi host with a minor update, application protection for Microsoft SQL Server fails with the error below. ANS9499W VMware tools on virtual machine VM need to be updated. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection will n...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

Supporting more than 512 characters in the GUI of TDP4VE

You cannot use in the GUI scheduler of TDP4VE more than 512 characters to put VMClient in the backup
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

Archive option for TSM for VE long term

Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

domain.vmfull VMdatastore wildcards

TSM for VE with TSM Client 6.4 allow for automatic discovery and inclusion of virtual machines in FullVM backups by using domain.vmfull dsm.opt option.Option domain.vmfull allows to specify different options in order to include the "right" list of...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

Option to exclude VM folder in DOMAIN.VMFULL

DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-vmfolder=DR-Machines,*TEST* -vmfolder will work in the same way as "-vm" excluding certain folders or folders containing som word
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

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