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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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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...
about 12 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...
about 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.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Make TSM for VE a "HA" solution

During the backup the virtual machine is “freezed” (which seems the normal way the “quiescing” that VM initiates on behalf of the backup application is done). As the customer is running Linux in some VMs and is also running an “HA” solution in two...
over 13 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

Client TSM for Hyper-V

In our company we use client TSM for Hyper-V version 7.1.6.5. Client is installed on cluster with Windows Server Datacenter 2012R2 with role Hyper-V.During we use this client and run client TSM for Hyper-V, users have to be in group "Administrator...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TDP for VE backup exclude files

We have a Windows VM ware which having SQL database . We have scheduled the SQl backups through TDP for SQL and snapshot backup through TDP for VE(It's a client requirement ) So here we are facing an issue that Snapshot backup is taking the databa...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSMVE unable to backup VMs at highest parent folder level

Issue in scheduling backups using VSphere protection using TSMVE, where the VMware enviroment is setup as VCloud Director. As the setup for VMWare is VCD, each folder in VSphere represents a unique customer organization with long names having UUID...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Reduce TSM4VE foot print in backup infrastructure with StorageAgent for vCenter

As of now TSM for VE component needs a separate system within the VM infrastructure or outside of it to setup a Data Mover node to help facilitate the Virtual Machine data movement. This enhancement request is to change the TSM for VE code and set...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration