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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Please add VMWare cloud Foundation 9 to the supported hypervisors.

We have customers that still use Storage protect for virtual environments and Broadcom forces them to change to VMWare Cloud Foundation in the near future and if Storage Protect does not support this they have to switch the an other backup tool.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should be UNCHECKED by default.

The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI configuration mode checkbox should remain unchecked as a default setting for normal use.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Define VMWare backup order

I need a way to define the vm backup order within a DOMAIN.VMFULL list
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

Hyper-V Redirect restore

System: TSM for VEActor: Require additional feature Description:I am doing a Hyper-V Restore using the TSM BA Client.I can backup and restore fine. The problem is I cannot choose a location of where to direct the restore.(the ba client hyper v res...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM/VE support for vsphere 5.5

What is the road map for TSM for VE to support vsphere 5.5? Currently the latest version of VE 6.4.1 supports up to 5.1
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM VE support for vsphere 5.5

Since vsphere 5.5 has already been released there is urgent need for support in TSM VE running on Windows.<br />TSM servers are on Linux Redhat 6.x<br />We are using TSM VE 6.4.1 and TSM Storage Manager 6.3 on Linux.<br />Compata...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

TSM BA restore from mounted vmdk files

Eliminate backup of windows client, and restore data from mounted vmdk files directly on the vm (and from the vm).
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Planned for future release

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