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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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TSM for VE - File-level restore process similar to TSM BA GUI

In a virtual environment, be able to execute file-level restore to alternate location using a backup operator account and keeping the original Windows folders/files permissions. This process would be similar to TSM BA client restore process, that ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TDP for VE 8.1.2 should not update the VMware guest notes field

Starting with IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments - Data protection for VMware 8.1.2.0, each completed VM backup updates the guest notes field.This can be a problem when that same notes field is used for other internal processes.There is...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Load Balance of TSM for VE Datamovers

When you have 1000's of Virtual Machines and a daily changes in your environment, it get's really hard to get a good a easy overview which Datamover that has less load. It should be good if the datamovers could talk to each other and spread the wo...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Update documentation to configure multiple dsmcad services on RHEL 7.x

Please update the documentation about "Manually configuring multiple client acceptor services on a Linux system" (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSERB6_8.1.2/ve.inst/t_ve_cfg_setmulticadslnx.html) for RHEL 7.xBasically, the technote 2...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Tag Data Mover available on folder level

Hello Currently it's not possible to configure Data Mover on a folder vmware for all VMs of this one and you have to do it manually one by one. And we have to not forget to do it each time a new vm is placed in this folder. Thanks for adding this ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

IBM Spectrum Protect TDP for VE - restore procedure for one of the VMDK should allocate only the space of that VMDK

TDP for VE, restore one of multiple source hard disks of a VM. The disk to restore is 50GB another disk of the source VM is 2TB, actually the product allows to restore the small (50GB) disk only after allocating the whole space that was used by th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Full VM restore with HD 1 only

The question is, how to restore the VM without having All Hard Disks, beside "Hard Disk 1" being created and allocated in the datastore. We do backup of "Hard disk 1" only for a VM, see attached "SPFILOPS17 backup detail.jpg" When we restore the V...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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