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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Restore of VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced

This is feedback from a customer using the product, customer name are availble upon content with us but it is a Swedish government agency. Customer are on 7.1.1.300 level. The restore process of a VM with DP for VMware could be enhanced. During re...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

VM search when restoring - tsm for ve plugin/site

A way to search or select a vm to restore once you click on "initiate a restore" _without_ specifying a host.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

disable the disk signatures when doing the install of the data movers for TSM VE

When a customer installs TSM VE on a vStorage Backup Server for Windows using the SAN mode (i.e. data store LUNs zoned to vStorage Backup Server), the customer suggests that the install wizard tells the user that it will disable automatic disk sig...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

multi-vmdk restore in parallel

multi-vmdk restore in parallel
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to attach/restore volumes

Currently the TSM4VE vCenter Plugin only allows to restore a whole VM. To restore single volumes of a VM or to mount a volume in order to restore single files, a separate GUI (TSM4VE Recovery Agent) must be started. It is required to have this fun...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

VE Restore from GUI no search button

unable to search for a specific vm to restore
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

TSM VE report capabilites

WE are using TSM VE and have competition with VEEAM.It look like there is lack of capabilities in the report section.Our customer ask to get the following simple report that will contain:VM-name; Start Backup; End Backup; Size backup; Backup Statu...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Be able to change retention for individual VM guests being backed up with TSM VE

If a customer wants to change the retention time for individual VM guest backups, the customer has to change it for all vm guests that are associated with the Data Mover node. Because TSM VE stores the individual guests as file spaces under the da...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Implementing a search vm dialog in the TSM4VE plugin/web gui

Implementing a dialogue for searching a specific vm in the plugin/web gui like inside the TSM B/A client.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

VMware backup reporting in TCR

Tivoli Common Reporting.Client is unable to have a view of each VM which is being backed up.Clients require a full detailed report of VM's being backed up within the TCR tools.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

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