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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2019

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SPP RESTORE PRODUCTION

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Our vmware team found a problem using the production restore method. They saw that just before the final step of the process, SPP makes vcenter delete the original virtual machine so that it could create the new one with the same unique identifier, resulting in seemingly the same machine.
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But they realized that they lose some alternate configuration along with the old virtual machine such as affinity rules and nsx (a kind of virtual firewall) security tags/groups. I mean, vmware when deletes a machine deletes all the configuration related to it. They suspect that could lose some critical data else, in addition to the previous ones that, they aren't capable of knowing them at the moment
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Our vmware team have tested SPP and other backup SW , the tool they apparently know how to use, in order to understand the differences between them. They told us other software doesn't delete the original virtual machine during the restore (physically a directory named after the vm hostname), only deletes the machine files, for instance vmdk files, and restore the ones previously backed up. So, as vmware doens't remove the vm doesn't delete affinity rules, nsx tags, etc.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 20, 2020

    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.

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