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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Vmmaxvirtualdisks bigger than 8 TB

We have customers with disk bigger than 8 TB.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Centralized include/exclude list for VM backups

Please provide a central location for managing include/excludes for individual VMs, like a client options set.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM-VE : better management of VM which have non cleaned snapshots from previous backups

The purpose of this request is to ask product management team two things:- to make available a report, for instance through the vCenter plug-in , that shows if virtual machines that are being protected by TSM-VE, have non cleaned snapshots. It wil...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to create long term snapshot of TSM for VE data

At present, TSM for VE is suitable for storing short to medium term data. Where regulatory type backups such as 1-7 year retention backups are required, a separate node using the traditional Backup Archive Client needs to be set up to perform this...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

MS SQL support for Linux Host (both physical and virtual)

Customer will start tests this year with MS SQL on Linux. This will be tested on physical machines as well as on virtual appliances. They also need to backup this databases. At the moment ISP for Databases and ISP4VE only supports MS-SQL on Windows.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SP for VE: Remove or increase 8TB size VMware virtual machine disks limit

To be able to protect large VMware vmdk files using Spectrum Protect fot Virtual Environments, can the limit on vmmaxvirtualdisks option be increased or removed?
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

New Vsphere TAG at VM level to specify scheduling priority

A new PRIORITY tag at vm level could be used to force the tdp4ve backup schedule to backup the vms in a desired sequence ( ex priority option from 0 to 100 ) default 100 , 0 highest priority 100 lowest priority. Customer are often requesting to ba...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration