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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Incorrect access permissions and ownership info when creating directories during restores

We know that there are two limitations in SP for Virtual Environment. We need to restore directories with the same access permissions and ownership information that they had during backup time. Directories that are created during a restore operati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE - VMware - VM Tag support

We would like to request the VM schedule tagging functionality to VE. Not being able to do it at the VM level is creating a lot of unnecessary workarounds and exceptions. Is this something that is in scope for future releases? Thanks.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute Backup Schedules on-demand

The ability to execute a schedule task in the Backup Schedules list manually. The current behavior is scheduled backup will only run at a scheduled time, we cannot right click and choose run now (similar to an adhoc backup).
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SP for VMware multiple proxies in web client

In some SP for VMware environments using just one proxy node may not be optimal or even possible.The SP for VMware Vsphere Web client integration must be able to handle multiple proxy node configs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Scheduler should skulk "In Progress" events and vcenter jobs

If DSMC aborts after completing a filespace or VM backup, but before sending the backup summary, then the events table will forever show "In Progress". Further, for VM backups, vcenter will perpetually show the backup as running. When a scheduler ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE.VMDISK improvement

Our policy should be to make an image of only the OS-disk of VM VMWare, with TSM for VE . Making VMbackups of the data-disks with TSM for VE should not be allowed.For 91% of the VM's (+/-4200 VM's) , the OS disk with SCSI(0:0) is located on “hard ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SP4VE File recovery : reports user whom initiated file restore

We are using SP4VE in a full service mode so user can do restore on its own through the many interfaces available. However, security policies enforce us to track who's doing what. Thus, we need to have the information on who is requesting/initiati...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for VE-Remove 8 TB VMDK snapshot backup Restriction or Extend snapshot backup of VMDK from 8TB to 64 TB

We would like to have IBM enhance IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments product and remove this restriction/limitation to fail the snapshot backup of VMDK which is grater then 8 TB in size. We would like to have IBM remove this limitation/...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify cluster as target for TSM4VE restores

Make it possible to specify ESXi cluster and storage cluster names when restoring VM in TSM4VE
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Initial config

Initial config does not state that ethernet requires access to vmkernel network. A quick test during config can fix this. Otherwise you need to add a nic, find cli user/password and manually config the new nic. Best practice is to have one mgmt ni...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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