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Search results: Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Backup status report scope

There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

Select vm backup based on resource pool, i.e., use resource pools as vm selection with the include.vmfull domain (similar to hosts, hostclusters, etc.). .
over 11 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"
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 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

Tsm4ve in vcloud mode can only use wild card to select, not de-select

With TSM4VE backing up a vsphere cluster, it is easy with a -vm option, and wildcards to exclude vm's from backing up. When pointing to a Vcloud Director, and backing up vapps, you can include vapps with wildcards, but not exclude them. Every VAPP...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing TMS4VE vCloud support to select destination datastore/datastore cluster in restore wizard

Implementing a dialogue to select destination datastore/datastore cluster when resoring a vApp with showing up the status enough or not enough space available like RFE 47160.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Intoducing datastore clusters in TSM4VE incl. status in initating restore process

Providing the datastore cluster name when recovering a vm in a vcenter environment. Implementing a dialog drill down to select datastore cluster or datastore with displaying available space. There should also be status symbol for enough or not eno...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Add "browse" support for fields in the VM Restore Destination dialog box in the BA Client "Restore VM" function.

The current dialog box in the TSM BA cient for selecting the destination parameters when restoring a VM to an alternate location (Restore to "Following location") do not provide any lookup or "browse" capability, requiring the user to remember and...
over 10 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

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection. vCloud director creates resource pools for each "org" or client/LOB. vCloud places the vCloud managed VM's in those resource pools.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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