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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Populate the file space information with VM space information

The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Backups whitout vmware quiescing

If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments Server Backup Sets

Requesting the ability for TSM4VE to be able to create group listings of servers to do backups and restores. Basically the ability to say that if we want to restore an application enviornment which spans multiple servers, we can restore that set o...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tsm 4 vm: disable fallback to full backup when incremental fails

When an incremental backup fails (because of some vmware problem - the reason that it exists is not to be discussed here) - TSM client shows warning (“ANS9387W Incremental backup unsuccessful for virtual machine 'vm_machine'. Performing Full backu...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

ACL restores @ single file restore

In case of a single file restore, the Windows Explorer do not allow to copy ACLs in a normal copy-and-paste operation.So it is needed to use a 3rd party product (xcopy, robocopy,..) to "copy" the files from backup to productive location. This is i...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.

Unable to do file based recovery due to Mount Function is not supported for DYNAMIC Disks. MBR is limited to 2TB.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Incorrect access permissions and ownership info when creating directories during restores

We know that there are two limitations in SP for Virtual Environment. We need to restore directories with the same access permissions and ownership information that they had during backup time. Directories that are created during a restore operati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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