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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Manual Tag Backups

If we setup TSM for VE we are normally backing up our VMs using VMware Tags, but the issue with VMware tags is that we need to setup temporary schedules to be able to test it or rerun a failing job.We want to be able to run the VMware Tag Backup u...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

No native backup support for Nutanix

Why: Seamless integration, optimized performance, granular recovery, compliance adherence, and vendor support contribute to a robust backup solution within the Nutanix VM environment. Note: Currently it is supported by Storage Defender but it requ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Tag Data Mover available on folder level

Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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