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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 11, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Backup vCLS VMs

Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware.
Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 13, 2021

    This is a duplicate of the following RFE:
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=152013

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 12, 2021

    Hi Richard,
    This is an interesting idea.
    Have you tested to add an include/exclude rule on the node where you exclude the VM?
    I know that it will be complicated due to taggings, but just curious.

    What if the backups was triggered from the VM servers console instead, is that exclusion available there?

    In the SPFS (Filesystem for Spectrum Protect); the administrators has the freedom of selecting the method they want to use to protect the VMs
    For example using the Proxmox interface to protect KVM guests, and by selecting the prefered executions from there.
    SPFS is just a way to translate filesystems calls directly into Spectrum Protect Client API Calls, so nothing is really staged locally.

    https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435

    What I am trying to say is if there is a way to resolve this using native VMware tools, than that options is also something to consider.

    Thanks for this interesting RFE

    Regards Tomas

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