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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 15, 2020

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Restore virtual machine WITHOUT recovering specific disks

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V suite offers the option to exclude certain disks when restoring a virtual machine. See page 159 of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Version 8.1.9 - Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V - Installation and User's Guide"

vmname:-vhdx=disk_location

This -vhdx=disk_location option is used to specify the disk location of one or more virtual disks to
exclude from restore operations.

However, it would seem that all disks are *always* recovered no matter what options one specifies.

The difference being that in the case of a disk exclusion, an empty disk is recreated and no data is written to it.

This process can be very time consuming in the case of large disks, since the disk creation does not happen thin (space is not dynamically allocated, but completely pre-allocated during the restore process). And this will prohibit restoring VMs altogether when there are space constraints (again, likely to happen when trying to exclude large disks).

The exclude option vmname:-vhdx=disk_location should simply *not* recreate that disk at all!
Or, if that is not possible, recreate an empty disk with dynamic storage allocation (have it thin provisioned) so no time or space is wasted.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 11, 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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