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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 16, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Add ability to query virtual disk size at the point of backup from SP client

APAR IT22561 addresses an issue which causes a failed restore of an individual virtual disk to report success, but there are deeper underlying problems here.

As per the APAR text, to recover an individual virtual disk virtual disk once it has been removed from a VM requires a manual step to recreate a virtual disk of the same size with the same label.

However the size of the virtual disk at the point it was backed up cannot be determined using Spectrum Protect alone. A successful restore of the data is therefore reliant on the configuration information being held in some external management system which may or may not be the case.

The information required is likely held within Spectrum Protect and we need a way to surface it in order to know what size disk to re-create prior to the restore being performed.

Idea priority High

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