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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 13, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Datamover rebalance command should also rebalance the data each DM is responsible for rather just the number of VMs.

The rebalance command only balances the number of VMs managed by a DataMover, but not the amount of data.  We think that would be as important if not more than the number of VMs being managed.  Ultimately a rebalance operation that takes both items into consideration would be ideal.

Idea priority Medium
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    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
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    |     Apr 9, 2024

    We already consider vm size when doing rebalance. From VE user guide:

    d. If you selected more than one data mover and want to redistribute the workload among the data movers, click Full rebalance of data movers. This option assigns the selected data movers to all

    virtual machines in this schedule.

    During a data mover rebalance:

    • VMs are sorted by size (storage usage).

    • Data movers are assigned to the VMs by size, with the largest VM being assigned to the first data mover on the list, the next largest VM assigned to the next data mover, and so on.

    • Existing data mover assignments are overwritten.

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