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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 9, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

TSM VE backups snapshots filling up datastore and crashing VM.

Please add an option in TSM that automatically cancels a VM backup when the snapshot is filling up the datastore. Without this functionality, the VM will crash and often requires extensive work for the VMware administrator to clean up the mess and bring the VM back online.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 16, 2016

    Thank you for the additional information. This is something we are looking at forthe future. I don't have a specific target date to share at this time.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 16, 2016

    Thank you for your response. Unfortunately the suggested solution does not solve our problem. We need actual running backups to automatically cancel themselves once it has been detected that the datastore is low on space. The vmdatastorethreshold option only prevents new backups from starting if the datastore is low on space. Also vmdatastorethreshold needs to support setting a discrete number for free space required rather than just percentage used, since datastores can vary greatly in size.
    Please comment.
    Thank you

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 10, 2016

    A solution to address this issue was delivered in version 7.1.4.4.

    See details here:

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.6/client/r_opt_vmdatastorethreshold.html

    This option enables Spectrum Protect to prevent a backup from starting if there is not a pre-determined amount of space available on the datastore.

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