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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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

Reporting Enhancements for TSM4VE environment

With TSM version 6.3.5 the rename filespace command is not supported anymore. This feature provided to us possibility of having a clear separation of active and expired(decomissioned) VMware virtual machine filespaces.We also used for monitoring a...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

DataStore Free Space Check Before Creating Snapshot

TSMVE Should check Free Space on VMware Data Store Before creating a snapshot. If there is low space on Datastore then Snapshot can cuase the Datastore to go out of diskspace and unstable the VM's on that Datastore
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Full synthetic backups

To be able to create full synthetic backups without the need of performing full backups. Other competitors do it so why not TSM
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM VE Support - include option to specify a DATACENTER in option file

There currently is no include option to specify a DATACENTER. Please add it
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE linux guest file level restore (without using windows for mounting)

We would like to restore files (file level) for Linux virtual machine whout using windows server for iSCSI mounting. Since we do not have any windows servers/guests in our environment.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environment and Vmware Site Recovery Manager Place holder VM's

TSM for virtual Environment is unable to recognize Vmware Site Recovery Manager ‘s Place holder VM's. TSM For VIrtual Envionrment is unable to recognizANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnap...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SP Recovery Agent Session Selection Saving

When you utilize "IBM Spectrum Protect Recovery Agent" and configure a "New IBM Spectrum Protect server ..." under the "IBM Spectrum Protect Server" section, it will override any previously configured servers (removes any previously configured ser...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - exclude

1. exclude -vm=all-powered-off<br /><br />We are having issues with lot of powered off VM's    being backed. Need to have a global suboption to exclude poweroff vm's.<br /><br />2. recognize the inclexcl file &nbs...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a clu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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