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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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    TSM4VE UI Support for mulitple Spectrum Protect server instances

    the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the distribution of VM backup data of 1 datacenter to multiple Spectrum Protect instances. Nowadays VM datacenters have reached sizes which require to have more than 1 Spectrum Protect instance ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Empty directories are not restored during a single file restore operation

    If your restore collection contains also empty directories , the empty directories are not restored. We also need restore empty directories, which are used temporarily.The default according to the manual is "skip" empty directories. It is intentio...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

    TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Support for RHEL 9

    Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

    The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

    SPVE needs a Parameter to ignore failed quiesced snapshot if its not the last try

    SPVE marks a schedule run with Warning if for one vm in the schedule one try to make a quiesced snapshot fails. This behavior makes no sense if INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is set to more than one quiesced snapshot try. It only makes sense if the la...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

    Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

    As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

    We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Replication failures caused by decommissioned filespaces (virtual machines) are not sufficiently visible

    In an environment where you have cross-replicating Spectrum Protect servers and where you decommission a virtual machine, subsequent replications (replicate node commands) will fail if there remains unreplicated data on one of the servers.Replicat...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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