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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM VM backup without quiesceing the VM

We are trying to take TSM VE (VM Backup)Some VM are hanged during backup.If we do the manual backup without quiesce the backup is successful. We got a response from PMR 70845,024,677 that TSM use quiesce option during backup. Is there any plan to ...

TSM support support virtualization: HyperV, Xen, Citrix

TSM need to support more virtualization platform, not only VMwar, but also, TSM support support virtualization
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

TSM for VE exclude VMDKs from Backup

It would be useful to exclude some partitions/vmdks (temp-files, software-images, ...) from the backup.

Success/Failure of VM backups

Currently success/failure rates of individual VM backups via the proxy are not recorded. I'd like this recorded and shown in either the Admin Centre or TSM Monitoring/Reporting server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Allow selection of vm backup or resore in the web gui via vmware cluster (without showing individual vmware hosts)

TSM4VE does not currently allow viewing of VMs to select for backup or restore via VM Cluster only (without hosts). Viewing VMs to backup or restore via host is very difficult to work with in large corporate environments.

2 TB limit for Hyper-V VHDs

Hyper-V VHDs that have 2 TB or more space allocated, can not be backed up by TSM VE. Backups fail almost immediately when attempted.

TSMVE - File level restore - Linux proxy

TSMVE v7.1.1 - File level restore af Linux server fails when issuing "mount" command from web GUI.Linux version of proxy is RHEL 6.5 Seems like LVM command fails. Upgrade to support RHEL 6.5 / 6.6 requested. RHEL 6.3 is outdated (3 yrs) and can no...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Node Replication needs to replicate nodes without filespaces as well

Node Replication only replicates nodes with filespaces.

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV

2TB VHDX size limit in TDP4VE for hyperV
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

TSM for VE in AWS

Ability to run TSM for VE in AWS
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered