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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM for Virtual Environments, lacks the ability to accept out-of-date VMware tools to run application protection.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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM for VE: Exclude Windows Page File

TSM for VE needs to provide the ability to exclude Windows page files.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

TSM for VE within vCenter web client

TSM for VE vCenter plugin currently integrated into the vCenter web client Since the direction VMware appears to be heading with the vSphere client is a web-only client (not a .Net "fat" client), efforts need to be made to create the same function...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Individual File Restore Security (SSH)

Individual File Restore under Linux currently requires a passwordless ssh access from any client which wants to use individual file restoreto a Windows machine as user Administrator. This rises multiple implications: Security: You can log in to th...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration