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This was delivered in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8.1.0.
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.
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
In addition to the solution similar to the vmlist option, the include.vm / exclude.vm could also be supported in the Options file of the data mover with a syntax like the exclude.vmdisk option which is currently already available.
And additional/alternative approach, at least for vSphere environments, could be to key off of a tag in vCenter so the VMs to exclude could be tagged for exclusion from the VMware end. It should, of course, be possible to specify the tag to use in the optfile.
Where there are 100s or 1000s of VMs to process, a comma-separated list of virtual machine names becomes difficult to manage.
Adding a new DOMAIN.VMFULL option, perhaps called -vminc, which points to a text file similar to a traditional include/exclude list, would be easier to read, support and modify as needed.
Something like...
domain.vmfull vminc="D:\path\to\list\of\VMs.list"
Content of D:\path\to\list\of\VMs.list:
exclude.vm TEST01*
include.vm TEST02
include.vm WIN01REPORT* MC_REPORTS
include.vm WIN01*