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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Provide support for TSM for VE on PowerLinux (Linux-ppc64)

One of the advantages of running large backups/restores in a Power system is the use of in memory networking between LPARs. By increasing the MTU size of these inter-partition networks, we are able to get decreased backup times of several of our l...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Ability to have -vmfolder include sub-folders

In a large organisation, vmware and tsm will have different people administering them. The ability to include sub-folders would allow more flexibility.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

TSM for VE add information to better estimate meta data size

The current existing information in version 6.4 given by the command 'dsmc query VM <vmname> -detail' gives some details about the VM guest backups like : number of objects making up the backup, fragmentation, etc. but there is no easy way t...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM VE TDP should have option to enable/disable quiesce before snapshot

There needs to be an option to enable/disable the queisce before the VMware snapshot is taken. The scope of this option needs to be:1. By wildcard VM names2. By wildcard Host names3. By wildcard Host Cluster names4. etc.in a syntax similar to the ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Wildcard Support for VMFolder option in TSM4VE

We have different retention requirement for VM backup. so I was wondering if wild card is supported than we would not have to modified OPT file every time we add new customer..
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backups at VM level

Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at VM level with following columns: . Schedule start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . VM name . Cluster name . Backup Completion status . Error code if failed
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Adjustments to selecting backups in TSM for ve

The way you have to build schedules and select virtual machines for schedules is so archaic. I don't want to go down my list of esxi hosts and filter through all of my virtual machines. Show me clusters and folders and other ways than just one way...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Advanced OVM integration with Spectrum Protect

IBM have signed a new customer on board. The customer is embarking on a significant shift of its estate to an Oracle Supercluster platform, making use of Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM). The customer wants to ensure that the Data Protection platform ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM Data protection for VMware FLR interface performance Improvement

We are using the FLR interface for recovering files from DP for VMware snapshot backups. From the FLR interface login page, after the click on "connection" button, it's take a long time (nearly 3 minutes) to display the next pages. Is it possible ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Remove the dross from VM backups

Page/swap space continuously changes, so every time you do a vm backup, this space will get backed up again. Also due to the totally random nature of the contents, it will not deduplicate will. It may be just a few Gigs/vm, but over multiple versi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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