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Storage Protect Family

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TSM FOR VE ( for vmware) option to exclude drives when performing Virtual Machine backups

Within tsm for VE , would need an option to exclude specific disks ( vmware esx vmdk ) .By exclude I mean ( do not backup the data in those containers ) but backup the metadata , so that they would be recreated during VM restore ( but empty )
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 7 Delivered

CentOS support for the use of Spectrum Protect for Space Management component under Spectrum Archive

Requires the support of Spectrum Protect for Space Management function in CentOS environment, for the use of this component under Spectrum Archive.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Delivered

TSM VM backup without quiesceing the VM

We are trying to take TSM VE (VM Backup)Some VM are hanged during backup.If we do the manual backup without quiesce the backup is successful. We got a response from PMR 70845,024,677 that TSM use quiesce option during backup. Is there any plan to ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Naming for the VMWare snapshot generated by TSM4VE

The naming of the VMware snapshots generated by TSM4VE during backup activity should be customizable. You can see if a snapshot is generated by TSM4VE because the properties of a TSM4VE generated snapshot includes a "TSMBackup" information,but a t...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect server should be able to display what clients are sending 'pre-deduplicated' data

either in operations center, or with a simple select statement, it should be possible to display if a client is actually sending deduplicated data to the Spectrum protect server.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Operation to use 443 https instead of specific port 11090 default

A Danish customer is asking for the option to use the https 443 standard SSL TCPport and use that instead of the need to use a specific port in the URL like 11090.https://Ipaddress:11090/ocIt should be possible to access the OC UI without the need...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

Endtime like parameter on replicate command to limit runtime on process

An option to be able to specify an endtime for a replication job to run to is desired. This way it would be possible to start a replication job, and have it stop automatically .e.g. at 07:30:00 - without having another administrative schedule to c...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Backup HyperV VMs more backup Types & Options

more backup types & options for hyperV VMs not only full backup and restore
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered

Support for the TSM 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12 ?

Support for the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 Linux x86/x86_64 Backup-Archive client on Linux distribution Ubuntu 12. Today, IBM supports only Ubuntu 10 and 11.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417165#6.3%20DI...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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