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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.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Use a single GUID per machine in a TDPDOM WIN86 environment

Problem title GUID flapping (repeated ANR1639I messages) Environment: Product or Service: Data Protection for Domino Windows 7.1.W Component ID: 5698DPDAP VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP4 x32 TSM se...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Is a defect

Allow server/oc silent install script to work across revisions

Currently, an install script has to specify specific versions/revisions of TSM server and OC code when identifying what components to install. This means the script is only good for that v.r.m.f.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM for VE 6.4.1 support for vSphere 5.0

Customer updated its vCenter from version 5.0 to 5.5, but the vSphere environment remained on version 5.0. With this, they cannot use TSM for VE 6.4.1 (that does not support vCenter 5.5) or TSM for VE 7.1, that does not support vSphere 5.0.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

tdpoconf limitations when configuration TDP for oracle

TDPOCONF is limited as we cannot parse additional parameters when we run the password configuration. Ideally, it would be best if we could run tdpoconf password and automatically parse the password automatically within a script. This is a major ro...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM: Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a Linux cluster environment

Manual upgrade when skipping instances in a cluster environment
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TDP For erp sap_hana

Despite what is written in the documentation Versioning is not available for SAP_HANA backups. I would like to have the MAX_VERSION available so as to age backups. At the same time I want SAP HANA to be aware about the deletion of those old backups.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Enhance define volume command with additional parameter

When defining a Sequentialfilevolume, it appears instantly in the filesystem. This is possible, because the internal structure of the volume will be created later, when data is written to it. This was introduced somewhere in TSM Version 6.3 and us...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

tsm4ve "file restore" in tape mode is unusable in rel 7.1.3

The file restore webpage "https:\\vserver::9081\FileRestoreUI" is unuseable in tape mode. The documents claim that it will be slower, however it the data is not PRESTAGED to disk it interface is unusable.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Incremental forever Hyper-V backup setting host in snapshot mode.

Running a Hyper-V incremental forever backup, the system is creating a AVHDX snapshot, to keep track of the changes between backups. This set the host to run in "snapshot" mode and consumes space on the system. The space used will over time increa...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration