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Search results: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM for VE: Eliminate ANS1711W warning message or change to informational.

Whenever the default backup mode is selected for a VMware VM backup (incremental forever, incremental) and a full backup has not been performed, a warning message is issued "ANS1711W Incremental backup selected for 'MLTUSAPV27', but a Full backup ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

add scsi addressing in INCLUDE.VMDISK parameter

Description of the problem:Our policy should be to make only an image VMbackup with TSM for VE of only the OS-disk. Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Inckude/exclude/wildcards/regex

Like to use wildcards/regex and/or include/exclude statements whenn selecting:* datacentre* hostclusters* hosts* vm's* storge
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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

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

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

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 ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Using VMware vSphere Tags for selection of VMs to back up

We need better tools to select which VMs to be included in or excluded from a backup. The RFE ID 62515 is another indication of this. I suggest to implement into the TSM client the ability to select VMs to include/exclude based on VMware vSphere T...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

More characters for the Options file in ISPforVMWare or Folder selection

It´s not possible to use the new ISP for VMWare GUI to backup a big VMware Environment. Problem here is: If you add to much VM´s in the selection list through the wizard, the optfionsfile get´s to big. --> anr2603e update schedule options strin...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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