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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM4VE - scheduling and tagging at VM granularity

Can we remove the following limitation ?Customer would like to use TAGGING at VM level, not at FOLDER level, without changing or replanning the whole VMs infrastructures.He would like to tag & schedule some VM to daily backup, some other (may ...
about 7 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 9 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

ADD FUNCTION ON CLI (SELECT) FOR IBM SPECTRUM FOR VE

From gui view it's possible to implement the search "VM WHITOUT BACKUPS".We would add this function at CLI level.In this way I will can schedule a weekly reports.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TSM VE backups snapshots filling up datastore and crashing VM.

Please add an option in TSM that automatically cancels a VM backup when the snapshot is filling up the datastore. Without this functionality, the VM will crash and often requires extensive work for the VMware administrator to clean up the mess and...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Data Mover Configruation

Report that shows VE Datamover configuration: - Shows the Mapping of . TSM/VE Server instance . ESXi Cluster . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover Hostname . # of ESXi Hosts managed . # of VMs managed . Capacity managed (for sizing and forecasting purp...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backup Status by Datamover Schedule Level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at Data Mover Schedule Level to show the following: . Scheduled start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . Datamover TSM Name . Datamover hostname . Backup Completion status . Error code
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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