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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Extend 512 Character Filter limit in TSM for VE Backups

The filter limit of 512 Characters is too limiting. In a large environment this limit causes admins to create multiple schedules to accomplish what one schedule should be able to do. Having these multiple schedules causes additional problems such ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Exclude SRM placeholders in TSM for VE backups

There are no viable options to exclude SRM placeholders from TSM for VE backups. TSM for VE should either identify or filter out SRM placeholders from showing in the backup selection view.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Adding Exclude statement for Hyper-V backups

We do not find Exclude statement for hyper-v backups.Customer is not able to exclude particular VM from backup.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

Better management of VMs which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CBT Issue in vSphere - VE needs to leverage vSphere API to more efficiently mitigate this issue

Read this: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639 When you read it, look at this statement: Note: It is not required to power off the virtual machine to change the CBT configur...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Orphan Snapshot

Detect and Remove Orphan and Non Orphan Snapshots before closing Backup Log.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Could not backup vmdk bigger than 2TB

Unable to get VM guest saved that has disks bigger than 2 TBgetting the error :ANS2687W The virtual machine 'ITSVCS2' contains one or more disks that exceed the maximum size limit. I know this is a TSM limitation based on a VMware recommendation; ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM4VE VMDK 2TB Limit

VMWare supports VMDKs that are larger than 2TB but the latest version of TSM for Virtual Environments does not. This is preventing us from backing up large file and print servers. When is IBM going to support backing up VMDKs larger than 2TB?
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Additional Exclude Options made available within opt file

It is necessary when managing multiple environments and schedules to exclude vm's by any of the following; * datacentre * hostclusters * hosts * vm's * storge
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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