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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 29, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Exclude VMs based on VM size/.vmdk size with dsm.opt/cloptset exclusion

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With the explosion of virtual machines taking over our datacenters, using TSM for Virtual Environments is crucial to successfully protecting the data in our IT organizations. It is obvious that there is no "one size fits all" tool for protecting these virtual environments as the workload/size/configuration is vastly different. Requirements and dependecies are often unique, many of these stem from internal decisions and not software/hardware limitations.

The need to easily identify the large "monster" VMs and subsequently exclude the entire VM based on total VM size or exclude individual .vmdks based on individual .vmdk size. Having a message posted to the TSM server activity log and the dsmsched/dsmerror log on the datamover would need to be in place as well to allow effective monitoring/auditing of the VM backup environment.

Idea priority Urgent

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