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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Contact-Field for VMs in VM-Backup

Add a contact email field for a vm filespace that allows to notify a user about the backup state.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - Disable Disk Management access to sahed LUNs

To enable SAN transport method to be used by vStorage Backup Server (the datamover) VM backups, one must share the same LUNs used by the pool of host servers with the vStorage Backup Server. Extra care has to observed because if the datamover serv...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Recovery Agent - Instant Restore - GPT Support

Recovery Agent currently supports only MBR disks for direct mount and instant restore. GPT disks should be supported as well, especially for instant restore. Direct GPT mount would be nice to have (no iSCSI).
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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

TSM for VE enhancements

1) Need ability to restore just one drive from the TSM for VE gui on the backup proxy server.2) Ability enhanced for the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent to restore to a different drive letter or mountpoint than the original.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization - Manager

Add RHEV-M support similar to support provided for VMWare.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE support Citrix

I am Lab Advocate of TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor) who is the big customer in GCG, who used TSM more than 15 years, now customer is using Citrix for Desktop Cloud solution, but they have to still use traditional way to backup the data, they want to T...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Not under consideration

Schedule options filed enhancement to store more virtual machine names

When using the new frontend for TSM for VE for creating a scheduled backup the frontend uses the options filed to store necessary parameters like: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BERLIN -domain.vmfull="VM=vm_name1,vm...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Search option in TsmVmwareUI

When dealing with large number of VMs, finding a VM for restore/mount operation in the Datacenter list is extremely difficult and equal to finding a needle in a haystack. Search option would improve this interface significantly.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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