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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

dont perform a FULL backup of all vmdks if only one vmdk is resized

Resizing of the VMware VM disk will trigger a reset of the CBT data of that specific disk. This causes a FULL backup of the entire VM. Not only the resized disk will be backed up fully, but all other disks too.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

CentOs as a supported OS for TDP for VE datamover

Having RHEL 7 as supported Environment, and having CentOS 7 as supported in Spectrum Protect, it is highly appreciated to enhance support for running TDPVMware datamover and mountproxy in CentOS as well.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

.NVRAM and vTPM restore needed with DP for VE VMware

Restore of a VMware guest does not include .NVRAM and vTPM. VMware points out, that backup software should take care of backup and restore of these two objects.https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/8f96698a-0e7b-4d67-bb6c-d18a1d10...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

VM recovery problem

Hypervisor vmvare.There is a VM with many connected disks, about 50 TB.Only disk 1 is backed up and needs to be restored.When we start recovery of only the first disk, the recovery mechanism checks for free space in the storage not for disk 1, but...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

MS-SQL Support for Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1 should support MS-SQL 2012.Customer has a large MS-SQL 2012 installation base running on VMware. Both products do not support a official supported version of MS...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Increase vmmaxvirtualdisks limit

Increase the maximum supported disk size (Vmmaxvirtualdisks option) to current available limit. In version 8.1.10 the maximum is 8TB but the maximum vmdk size in cSphere 6.7 is 64TB.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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