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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes

Dynamic Load Balancing of Data Mover Nodes.
almost 10 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; ...
almost 10 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?
almost 10 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
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments Change Block Tracking Restore

I have many customers asking when TSM will have a CBT restore option. They state that products like EMC Avamar and Unitrends Virtual Backup Appliance have this capability.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Add options for type of ESX snapshot in TSMVE

Would like the ability to take non-quiesce snapshots with TSMVE in our ESX environment. I've been told snapping without an OS quiesce is a supported option in ESX and we'd like to be able to throw that flag for select VMs.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Additional parameter for TSM BA client to specifically identify a given VM for backup.

The TSM BA client assumes that all VMs in a vSphere estate have unique names, and uses the VM's name as the only means of selecting an individual VM for backup. However, vSphere allows for multiple VMs to exist with the same name. This is particul...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP VE 7.1 Schedule return codes.

TDP VE 7.1 does not return failed 12 for any vm's that fail during scheduled backups.This needs to be enabled to return a code of 12 for the scheduled backups without which the tracking becomes difficult.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 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 ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support for vCAC - VMware vCloud Automation Center

Customer at MIT has learned that VMware is moving away from vCloud Director and towards vCloud Automation Center. Initial response from TSM Development is "no plans to support vCAC". If Customer cannot back up vCAC environment with TSM, they may t...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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