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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Incremental forever Hyper-V backup setting host in snapshot mode.

Running a Hyper-V incremental forever backup, the system is creating a AVHDX snapshot, to keep track of the changes between backups. This set the host to run in "snapshot" mode and consumes space on the system. The space used will over time increa...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Vmware : TSM for VE Oracle VSS Support

Oracle under Windows provides the possibility to run VSS Backup of Oracle. I have found several RFPs where Customes are requesting this feature. I think we should give support to this type of backup.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE reporting unsuccessful backup

TSM for VE, version 7.1.2, that skips VM during backup of SRM VMs generates a SUCCESFUL=NO in the summary table
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Is a defect

TSM-VE IFINCR : incremental backup only ( manage CBT issue )

It would be great to have a way to avoid TSM-VE to perform a full backup when it hits a CBT failure or any other event making a full backup mandatory (for example:ANS9386W) .I imagine a parameter to rule out virtual machine which cannot run increm...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM granular restore from tape

The TSM for VMware vsphere plugin does not allow for a disk to be mounted for granular restore when the guest is saved on tape. . This is available through the TSm Ve recovery agent but not from the VMware plugin .
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM fo VE (VMware) / Extend Data Mover Linux OS Support

Currently, Data Mover OS requirements support the following:RHEL 5.9, 6.2, 6.3; SLES 11SP2 Many customers do not have these old RHEL releases in their supported deployment plans. They use newer versions of RHEL. TSMfVE Data Mover must also support...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for ESXi\vCenter 6.0 GA Release

TSM for VE currently shows no support VMWare\ESXi 6.0 Release.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Bypass quiesce using TSM and Vmware 5

We need a solution to backup VM's "bypassing" the quiesce, If is possible work with VMware to help us
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Password is removed when entering the configuration tab on TSM for VE 7.1.1

We need a patch to TSM for VE so when you open configuration tab you do not removed any information specify the password for the system account.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM FOR VE: Specify management class for vm full backups

When you run the recommended backup strategy IFINCR for VM backups, then the first backup is an IFFULL backup.In our strategy, we place the IFFULL-Backup in an other storage pool which is later migrated to tape.The following IFINCR-Backups are pla...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration