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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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    Spectrum Protect for VE restore only one disk, default space issue

    Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Restore Issue. The product design only permits these options when you want to restore only one individual unit like c: 1. If the target guest does not exist yet, space will be assigned on the datastore for...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE backup schedule ends with RC=12 when there is no guest eligible for backup

    Change the RC to 0 or 1 if no virtual guest is eligible for backup but the overall backup status is successful.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Multisite Connect

    When backing up a big VMware environment it is necessary that the customer can select multiple vCenters as source and multiple Spectrum Protect Servers as Backup destination.Enable management of data protection for multiple vCenters from a single ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    VMDK size limit for spectrum protect for ve backups (vmware)

    Increase vmdk size limit which is currently 8TB
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    TSM-VE : better handling of VM template backup

    may I suggest to not report a VM template backup as failed as it is done now when the VMENABLETEMPLATEBACKUPS is specified in the datamover option file ? It dosen't make sens to raise Error when excpected behavior has occured. If I specify the opt...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

    Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

    Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

    VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Exclude pagefile and c:\temp

    Hello, It would be good to exclude from image backup by default the systempagefile and hiberfile (like veeam do). Additional excludes like c:\temp could improve some backup situation. Greetings Horst Groh
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Configure TSM4VE without admin account on Spectrum protect server

    Make it possible to configure the TSM4VE interface without the need for an administrative account on the Spectrum protect server. Currently TSM4VE configuration needs an administrative SP account in order to configure the product - if no admin is ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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