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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2013

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TSM for VE Restore to Alternate Location Options

Restoring a VM to an alternate location is lacking sufficient details and options to allow for a prompt and quick restore.
1. The drill-down provided goes from data center to ESX host and then to data store. I believe another option to select a cluster should be included in-between data center and ESX host to allow for a precision restore to occur. This is useful if the data center is further divided into performance tiers and will reduce the chance of restoring the VM to an incorrect location
2. The restore process currently does not provide the size of the VM being restored or the available space on the data store. This should displayed to ensure the VM is restored to a data store with sufficient space. Also, the ability to change the VM settings like IP address on the NIC(s) of the server being restored would also be useful.
3. When a VM has been successfully restored. The annotations on the restored VM are not filled in. It would be useful to be able to have the annotations from the existing VM copied over to the restored VM to allow VM Administrators to quickly identify the role and purpose of the VM being restored.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 6, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. While consistent with our current product direction, at this time we cannotcommit to delivery of this enhancement in the next release or two. If, after our next release of TSM, you would like this requirement to be re-considered, please resubmit the RFE. Thank you for your commitment to TSM and for your support in moving the product forward.

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