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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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2 TB limit for VMware VMDK file backup

VMDK files with 2 TB or more cannot be backed up by the TSM client. The limit seems to be hardcoded. When will TSM support VMDK files with 2 TB or more?
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 'Monthlies' 'Yearlies'

Multiple different schedules and retentions are not supported when using the TSM for VE vsphere plugin or web client (or generally). This means a customer must create separate servers in order to keep a 'monthly' set of data for a year, otherwise ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Consistency between Disk # and Drive letter when using TAG INCLUDE:N or EXCLUDE:N

spectrum protect TAGS to include or exclude disk from tdp4ve backup are not consitent over time
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Exclude pagefile and c:\temp

Hello, It would be good to exclude from image backup by default the systempagefile and hiberfile (like veeam do). Additional excludes like c:\temp could improve some backup situation. Greetings Horst Groh
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Rebalancing datamovers for a TAG-based schedule should exclude EXCLUDED VMs

When running a command to rebalance assigned datamovers for a TAG-based schedule I was surprised that the VMs with TAG 'Ecxluded' of category 'Backup Management (IBM Spectrum Protect)' was included and had a datamover-tag assigned. The rebalancing...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore in TSM4VE

VM's with virtual NVME Controller should be supported for backup and restore.API error message : The device '3' is referring to a nonexisting controller '31,000'.Case TS001855546
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

File level restore web GUI - Prevent providing TSM admin credentials

To enable the file level restore web GUI, from the TSM for VMware web GUI configuration wizard, it is required to enter TSM admin server credentials. Due to security reasons it is not desirable to be able to connect to the TSM admin ports or to lo...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Incremental Restore

It would be useful if TSM for VE provided "incremental restore" functionality, using the Change Block Tracking feature, so as to perform a restore of a VM by only restoring data which has changed since a specific point in time.This is possible wit...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Change of communication for instant mount/instant full restore for TSM4VE

When using Instant Mount or Instant Full Restore in TSM4VE, all communication should be initiated from the client towards the server.Currently, traffic will be initiated from the TSM server towards the vStorage backup server on TCP ports 1501 and/...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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