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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Remove the dross from VM backups

Page/swap space continuously changes, so every time you do a vm backup, this space will get backed up again. Also due to the totally random nature of the contents, it will not deduplicate will. It may be just a few Gigs/vm, but over multiple versi...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE for Hyper-V - enable Hyper-V host to backup VMs from other Hyper-V hosts

After extended testing with IBM support and Microsoft support, it appears that TSM4VE still uses the Windows 2008 implementation for Hyper-V backups. While running backups on multiple Hyper-V hosts, some backups fail because simultaniously an othe...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP - Set INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS Globally

On the datamover, INCLUDE.VMSNAPSHOTATTEMPTS is used to allow fallback to a non-quiesced snapshot if the initial quiesce fails. Currently this option must be set on a per-VM basis. There should be an option to set this globally.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VM "self-defined" backup using VM custom attributes

Many large IT organization are performing VM backups in a multi-tenant environment. In those complex environments, the VM naming convention cannot always be fixed by the IT and thus, backup setup rules thru the VM name (wildmask filters, host sele...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Documentation fix for TSM for VMware and iSCSI Linux Restore

Enhance documentation regarding 5c in the documentation belowManually configuring an iSCSI device on a Linux systemhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/SS8TDQ_7.1.2/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/t_ve_cfg_mountiscsi.html Customer are ONLY pr...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP for Hyper-v vm replication fail.

When using TDP for Hyper-V. VM's are not able to use Microsoft replication thru Hyper-V Manager due to the fact that vm files are changed from VHD to AVHD format.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE improved VApp support in VCloud environment

Allow backup of a VApp and allow restore of an individual VM into the VApp
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP Vmware GUI second instance create

Based on our TS003054284 case, please describe us the method of the second TDP Vmware GUI instance creation on linux, because want to connect a second vCenter server too.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

additional exclude options from file-level VM backups using "vmbackuptype=file"

Currently on exclude and exclude.dir are supported. Having the ability to exclude drives or filesystems with exclude.fs or exclude.vmdisk would be beneficial
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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