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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Add options for type of ESX snapshot in TSMVE

Would like the ability to take non-quiesce snapshots with TSMVE in our ESX environment. I've been told snapping without an OS quiesce is a supported option in ESX and we'd like to be able to throw that flag for select VMs.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Additional parameter for TSM BA client to specifically identify a given VM for backup.

The TSM BA client assumes that all VMs in a vSphere estate have unique names, and uses the VM's name as the only means of selecting an individual VM for backup. However, vSphere allows for multiple VMs to exist with the same name. This is particul...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP VE 7.1 Schedule return codes.

TDP VE 7.1 does not return failed 12 for any vm's that fail during scheduled backups.This needs to be enabled to return a code of 12 for the scheduled backups without which the tracking becomes difficult.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Allow TSM for VE VMCLI to report VM deleted status

Enhance the VMCLI command to return the status of VMs deleted. Currently only the TSM for VE UI can generate the list of VM backups where the original VM has been removed from the VMware environment and therefore is in a 'deleted' state. While UI ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support for vCAC - VMware vCloud Automation Center

Customer at MIT has learned that VMware is moving away from vCloud Director and towards vCloud Automation Center. Initial response from TSM Development is "no plans to support vCAC". If Customer cannot back up vCAC environment with TSM, they may t...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Assign multiple datamover to a single vapp

For large vapps, one dm is not enough. It should be possible to assign multiple datamovers to one vapp (or multiple datamovers per vdc)
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Restore single vm from vapp

Select a single vm from a vapp that should be restored. Either as a new vapp, or import to an existing. Must be available from the web gui.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V

Performance drop when performing an Hyper-V backup of a Hyper-V guest that has a disk hosted on another Hyper-V node
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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