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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2014

Enhance exclude/include Single Disks processing during FULLVM-Backup

The TSM for VE module needs to be enhanced in order to give the possibility to exclude single disks while performing a FULLVM backup of virtual machines specified using wild cards.
Currently exclude/include.vmdisk statements containing wild cards are not supported.

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
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    Oct 30, 2014

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2014

    I only would like to have to wild card the vm name in a vmdisk statement like this is implemented in domain.vmfull statement.

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2014

    I would like to have an option to use wildcards in a include/exclude statement for virtual disks like (to backup only hard disk 1 for all vm's ending with "only_disk1" for instance):
    INCLUDE.VMDISK "*_only_disk1" "Hard Disk 1" (all other disks should be excluded in this case - this is implemented currently)

  • Guest
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    Jul 14, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. Our product team is evaluating the request but requires more information. Could you please provide more specifics to detail your use case or scenario in which you would like to use the feature you suggested? Or is the request to wild card the virtual machine name the could be resident on specific vmdisk (e.g. exclude.vmdisk "test*" "hard disk 2")?