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Storage Protect Family

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DP for Mail - Exchange: Backup multiple databases independently

Exchange database backup is launched as transaction from Exchange side of view - when all databases backup is started, databases are processed sequentially one-by-one. Until last database is backed up it is not possible to run LOG backup (type INC...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Instances of webUI on Different Proxy Nodes for the Same Datacenter

ISP4VE should be able to install and configure multiple instances of the vSphere GUI, on multiple proxy nodes, that have access and control over the same datamovers and VMware datacenters.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center not show pre and post schedule failed

When preschedule or postschedule fail, Schedules appear as succesfull in Operation Center. To find wich pre or postschedules that failed, we have to use the comand line to query event and find which one are in Error Status 8.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

provide alternative method to CBT for incremental backups

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of an alternative method for creating incremental backups, e.g. other backup products can make use of a CRC per disk block in order...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

enable/disable use of CBT on VM machine level

Due to the fact that there are multiple issues with VMware CBT function I recommend giving the TSM admin the choice of selecting "use CBT yes/no" independent of the chosen backup method on a "per VM" level, e.g. as a "VMNOCBTUSAGE=VM1; VM2; VM3"
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Remove Active Directory membership requirement for 7.1.3 VE File Restore Portal

To use the ISP4VE 7.1.3 File Restore Portal, the vBS server must be a member of the active directory environment managing the authentication of the VMs protected by ISP. We would like this requirement removed. It should be possible to allow the vB...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM ERP for SAP HANA certification for Dynamic Tiering environments archive

SAP hana SPS 10 did release a feture dynamic Tiering that allow some data to be kept on disk (see presentation: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62435)Those data could be mutiple TB to releive the cost of having it in memory.We would like to have TSM ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM Operations Center Add Client Node add to node group

When adding a client node using the beautiful TSM Operations Center, the user is walked through various selections for node, domain and backup schedule and even client options set! Great. In a disk only based solution with node replication where r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Windows System State Backup does not include the Windows Internal Database

As parrt of the system state backup the Windows Internal Database WID does not form part of the system state backup. e.g. c$\Windows\WID\Data\master.mdf Windows own internal backup WBadmin backs this up as part of system state
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Allow selecting of vm to backup based on vmware tag

VMware supports "tagging" at the virtual machine, and / or the folder level. These tags could be exploited to determine which VM's to backup with TSM4Ve.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

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