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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Delete schedule via VMCLI

We use VMCLI to schedule "run now" schedules in TSMVE via a custom script. After a few days the schedule page in the web gui is full and will not load. We want the ability to remove (now) schedules via VMCLI so that we can cleanup the schedule lis...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

could you please correct a document?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672351 If 6.4.2 is not supported for 5.1 U3, could you please update this information to the technote for clarity ? (I think we can clear the support information when you create the sigle table fo...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Tintri support with TSM-VE

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments is not currently listed as integrating with TinTri storage.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V to include backup for both VHD and VHDX formatted guests.

If the TDP for VE - DP for Hyper-V is installed, you are limited to backup IFFULL or IFINCR only guests in VHDX format. To both backup VHD and VHDX formatted guests on a single Hyper-V host. If you want to backup both VHD and VHDX hyper-V guests w...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Instances of webUI on Different Proxy Nodes for the Same Datacenter

ISP4VE should be able to install and configure multiple instances of the vSphere GUI, on multiple proxy nodes, that have access and control over the same datamovers and VMware datacenters.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

provide alternative method to CBT for incremental backups

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of an alternative method for creating incremental backups, e.g. other backup products can make use of a CRC per disk block in order...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

enable/disable use of CBT on VM machine level

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of selecting "use CBT yes/no" independent of the chosen backup method on a "per VM" level, e.g. as a "VMNOCBTUSAGE=VM1; VM2; VM3"
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Remove Active Directory membership requirement for 7.1.3 VE File Restore Portal

To use the ISP4VE 7.1.3 File Restore Portal, the vBS server must be a member of the active directory environment managing the authentication of the VMs protected by ISP. We would like this requirement removed. It should be possible to allow the vB...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 6.4.1 support for vSphere 5.0

Customer updated its vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.5, but the vSphere environment remained on version 5.0. With this, they cannot use TSM for VE 6.4.1 (that does not support vCenter 5.5) or TSM for VE 7.1, that does not support vSphere 5.0.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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