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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Resourcepool support for TSM VE

Support in TSM VE for creating schedules based on VMware resource pool. Now this is only possible on host, folder, cluster and datastore.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

exclude.vmdisk into client option set (cloptset)

Currently, the exclude.vmdisk cannot be set centrally on the TSM server by using the cloptset.So if you have multiple data movers, you have to set it locally on each data movers.Currently, we are managing between 500 - 600 VMs, spawn on 4 virtual ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

‘Max retries' and ‘wait time' value for VM backups

One of our TDPVE datamover has been logging the following message for 3 days:ANS0361I DIAG: The VDDK Utility Thread may be hung processing another request.ANS0361I DIAG: Waiting up to another 3600000 milliseconds to process a request to VddkFullVM...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtusl Enviroments

Hello, The tech note tells me do not backup the guests using one schedule due to the 512 charter limitation. We want to use one schedule. Currently TSM for VE backup schedules will only backup one schedule at a time, if the schedule doesn't comple...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE backups reporting completed when VM's have failed

As we can see below from the summary report 21 VM's were processed, 20 completed successfully, 1 failed but the scheduled event completed successfully: 04/27/2016 22:07:46 Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 2004/27/2016 22:07...
over 8 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...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Direct NFS access to VMWare Datastores

The need is to be able to read data to backup from NFS storage, directly from physical or logical proxy proxy when ESX storage is provided by NFS share (not SAN attached).
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Be able to specify the order of VM Backups

We want to be able to specify the order that virtual machines are backed up to fit in with time constraints that specific server present for the backup window
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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