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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2021

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Protect virtual machines with shared virtual harddisks (shared VHDX or VHDSet)

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We rely heavily on guest clustering for high availability. Virtualization delivers availability at the server level, but not at the application level. If a machine goes down unexpectedly, Hyper-V will bring it up on another Hyper-V host, but from the viewpoint of the application this is a stop and then a start.
So an unexpected downtime, however brief this is, which is unacceptable to manufacturing plants (our clients).
To reduce the downtimes, in the past (using physical servers) we relied on Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and later on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC).
Even after virtualizing our servers, we still use Failover Clustering because virtualization does not bring high availability to the application level.

These Failover Cluster virtual machines are the most critical for plant operations.
Yet they are completely unprotected by Spectrum Protect: we can't backup anything of them!
Certainly not the shared storage, but not even the OS disks (which are not shared) themselves!

Some years back, in a beta program presentation, I saw the quote from IBM that they had the ambition to be the leader regarding virtual machine protection.
Today, several competitors (Veeam, Rubrik) offer protection of virtual machines with shared virtual disks.
It is high time IBM reviews its position and also offers a solution to protect these type of virtual machines!

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 3, 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.

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