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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 6.4.1 support for vSphere 5.0

Customer updated its vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.5, but the vSphere environment remained on version 5.0. With this, they cannot use TSM for VE 6.4.1 (that does not support vCenter 5.5) or TSM for VE 7.1, that does not support vSphere 5.0.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tsm4ve "file restore" in tape mode is unusable in rel 7.1.3

The file restore webpage "https:\\vserver::9081\FileRestoreUI" is unuseable in tape mode. The documents claim that it will be slower, however it the data is not PRESTAGED to disk it interface is unusable.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Incremental forever Hyper-V backup setting host in snapshot mode.

Running a Hyper-V incremental forever backup, the system is creating a AVHDX snapshot, to keep track of the changes between backups. This set the host to run in "snapshot" mode and consumes space on the system. The space used will over time increa...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Vmware : TSM for VE Oracle VSS Support

Oracle under Windows provides the possibility to run VSS Backup of Oracle. I have found several RFPs where Customes are requesting this feature. I think we should give support to this type of backup.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM-VE IFINCR : incremental backup only ( manage CBT issue )

It would be great to have a way to avoid TSM-VE to perform a full backup when it hits a CBT failure or any other event making a full backup mandatory (for example:ANS9386W) .I imagine a parameter to rule out virtual machine which cannot run increm...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM granular restore from tape

The TSM for VMware vsphere plugin does not allow for a disk to be mounted for granular restore when the guest is saved on tape. . This is available through the TSm Ve recovery agent but not from the VMware plugin .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE (VMware) / Extend Data Mover Linux OS Support

Currently, Data Mover OS requirements support the following:RHEL 5.9, 6.2, 6.3; SLES 11SP2 Many customers do not have these old RHEL releases in their supported deployment plans. They use newer versions of RHEL. TSMfVE Data Mover must also support...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for ESXi\vCenter 6.0 GA Release

TSM for VE currently shows no support VMWare\ESXi 6.0 Release.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Bypass quiesce using TSM and Vmware 5

We need a solution to backup VM's "bypassing" the quiesce, If is possible work with VMware to help us
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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