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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 2, 2021

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Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

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We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center.

I opened a PMR to find out if there was a way we could move the over 1000 VMs involved to the new data center within TSM, so that they wouldn't have to back up full again, and am disappointed that this isn't possible - particularly as some of these VMs are quite large (8TB+) .

It would be nice if we had either:
a) A TSM for VE specific mechanism by which we could associate VMs (aka filespaces) with new data centers (aka nodes)
or
b) A method in general within Spectrum Protect by which we could take a file space associated with one node and switch it to a different node.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 7, 2021

    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
    Reply
    |     Sep 6, 2021

    Hi Jessica,

    Have you tried to use the same node name on both of the VM hosts?
    - asnode xxx might help (grant proxynode vmhost1 target=clusternode)

    That would make both of the VM able to backup the guests to the same filespace.

    We have clients using this trick, to sending backups to same fileshare using SPFS.
    https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435
    And I guess this can work here too.

    Regards Tomas

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