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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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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.
over 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
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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
almost 10 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...
almost 10 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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Orphan Snapshot

Detect and Remove Orphan and Non Orphan Snapshots before closing Backup Log.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration