Antwort: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread Markus Engelhard
Dear all, thanks for the feedback and great solutions! @Del, that was exactly the RFE, so the vote has increased by 1. Should be doable with limited resources, as it is displayed as a list in the GUI and the syntax is there as in exclude.vmdisk, so please dont´t reject it. Using vmfolders is a gre

Re: NAS Backup

2015-05-19 Thread Shawn DREW
Check the access state of the storage pool and make sure it is READW. I get this error when I forget and leave them in a reado state. -Original Message- From: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [

Re: NAS Backup

2015-05-19 Thread McWilliams, Eric
The max scratch volumes allowed is 1000 but only 362 are used. I don't have any with the status of empty. Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Marouf Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 1:57 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread Marcel Anthonijsz
Markus, My "current" best practice is to use the VMFOLDER option and create folders in the "VMs and templates" view. We have found that if the folder exists multiple times, all machines are collected and backed up. For example (pardon my bad the ASCII drawing skills): vCenter01 [-] [ ] DC1

Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Markus, Check to see if this existing RFE is a match: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=62515 and vote for it if it is. Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 05/19/2015 06:49:00 AM: > Fro

Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread David Ehresman
Keith, What a good idea! We do the same. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] including/e

Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Markus, We add ‘-NB’ to the label in vSphere of the VMs we do not wish to back up. Then, we specify ‘-VM=*-NB’ in the schedule options. QED Keith Arbogast Indiana University > On May 19, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Markus Engelhard > wrote: > > Dear all, > > we are currently struggling a bit with TS

including/excluding vms from backups administration usability

2015-05-19 Thread Markus Engelhard
Dear all, we are currently struggling a bit with TSM4VE config and making it more manageable regarding including and excluding vms from backup. For disks, we can exclude individual disks by just adding a line to the optfile looking like exclude.vmdisk "vm1" "Hard Disk 2" exclude.vmdisk "vm2" "Har