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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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    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...
    about 13 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...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Exclude a Linux disk from TSM for VE backup

    On Linux virtual machines, exclude disks from TSM/VE backups by their scsi number (e.g. scsi0, scsi1). TSM/VE can query Virtual Center, so it should know everything from that about each virtual machine and its disk(s).
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Support for unlimited VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS size

    We are start using TSM for VMware again after a few years using a different vendor. But during our migration we see that the maxlimit for a VMDK is still 8TB are we are VMs that has much larger VMDK files. We need to be able to increase this value...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Configure TSM4VE without SP Admin Access

    IBM Storage Protect is a popular Service Provider product and it is possible to buy backup functionality using IBM Storage Protect as a backup engine. But all of them is created to only run old legacy backup like installing client in the operating...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect for VE - "Wrong" Platform Name for Node using SP BA Client on Datamover server

    When we use Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment to back VMWare Virtual Machines we have "Spectrum Protect for VE" and "Spectrum Protect BA client" installed on the same machine. To backup VMs we create Data Mover node name DATAMOVER_NAME . Th...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Choose wich disc to restore in Data Protection for Hyper-V

    In Dataprotection for Hyper-V it would be very nice if we can choose wich disc to restore.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Recovery Agent for virtual environments - Save Spectrum Protect Server Connections

    In recovery agent you can mount virtual machine disk based on: - spectrum protect server-- ip-- port- datamover- datacenter node The recovery agent only remember last entry. It could be very nice if it can remember different entries.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Add Comprehensive Spectrum Protect support for OpenStack

    Our organization currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for VMWare to provide data protection for VMware VM instances using the common vSphere web GUI inteface.The imminent direction for the organization is to move to the ope...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Query output explanation required

    HelloPlease provide me with the detailed explanation of the output (columns and their values) of command that is executed on the datamover: SHOW VM ALLThank you.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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