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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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vCenter plugin does not display modified schedules properly

Problem: vcentre plugin does not display modified schedules When I add a filter to the plugin to exclude VMs from backup, it update the schedule in TSM Server but it is not always reflected in the plugin.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

if Vsphere is unable to make a quiesed snapshot (for example because of a vss writer), the whole backup fo the vm is abort

TSM for VE instructs the vsphere server to create a quiesed snapshot of a vm. if for some reason (for example the vss writers has a error) it cannot make a quiesed snapshot it will stop the entire backup. regardless of the other disk or data that ...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM DP for VE status emails

It would be of great benifit if the backup's configured wthin the plugin had the ability to send status emails of the scheduled backups each time they run.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

VE Snapshot without/Quiesce

With large VMware environments with TSM for VE, it is nearly impossible to get a clean backup of hundreds of VM's on a single data mover, given VSS instability. The VE backup should try application quiesce, first and if it fails do a non-quiesce s...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Support Engineer

Issues with changing vmdk include/exclude rules on VM backupshttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21643349
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Automatic VM Exclusion

I would like the ability for TSM for VE to automatically exclude VM's which already has TSM BA Client installed and use for file level backup. This list could be generated from TSM Admin/Operations centre (Or any 3rd Party software managing TSM) a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM BA restore from mounted vmdk files

Eliminate backup of windows client, and restore data from mounted vmdk files directly on the vm (and from the vm).
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Better usage of datamovers

In a large enviroment, there can be multiple datamovers on multiple physical servers. Maintaining a large number of datamovers is a complex task, and should be automated. Define all the nodes needed, give the process a list of tsm servers and node...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Cluster-in-a-box official support by TSM for Virtual Environment

Customer BNPP/BPI2 needs to backup VM in a VMware environment with TSM for VE that use "Cluster-in-a-box" configuration. This configuration is a cluster within a VM configuration (like MSCS clusters) sharing a common Virtual Volume (not a RDM, not...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

To have a progress of a scheduled job when scheduled through the Vmware Plugin.

I would like to be able to view the progress of each guest as it is getting backed up when the job is scheduled. If the job is selected to "run now" then it works. If I select schedule then there is no progress bar. Every other backup software doe...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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