vmProtect Wishlist
o was not reading about the lan free. is that really an requirement? so you have everything in one box? for backups something outside the box would be the best scenario.
but if you really want this then you could also add an zfs appliance like zfsgugu in vmware as vm with multiple disks as a stripe inside the vm.. atleast you will have a more then 2tb volume and when you have the two vmware striped disks on redundant storage then the risk of loosing one disk is also not "allmost" there. .. with zfs you could also trigger replication if desired. and when you stay on the windows tour then a striped d: drive with two vmware disks could do the same..
and yes i do agree it would be nice to do more then two tb. unly for these things mostly a nas/san is used.
The ability to have local storage volumes larger than 2TB is an absolute MUST HAVE.
but thats still a vmware restriction, not an issue in vmProtect
no its not and hasn't been since version 5.0
All of our datastores are greater than 2tb. Most are 5tb or higher.
This can only be done in vmware by sticking 2TB volumes together with EXTENDS
The ability to have local storage volumes larger than 2TB is an absolute MUST HAVE.
but thats still a vmware restriction, not an issue in vmProtect
no its not and hasn't been since version 5.0
All of our datastores are greater than 2tb. Most are 5tb or higher.
The Datastores yes, but VMDKs cant still be bigger than 2TB, and a local storage in vmProtect Appliance is just a VMDK-File.
OR is it possible mapping a Raw-Device to the Appliance? then you would be able to map a dedicated LUN to the Appliance which
could be bigger than 2 TB.
- Validation of TIB is very very long (24 hours for 200 Go), when an incremental job is done, the validation process validate the full TIB not the changed block
I can't believe that there are not configurable optional settings which changes this behaviour. Whenever we take a full backup of our 4TB machine, this takes 10 hours. Plus 10 hours to verify. An incremental backup takes about 30 minutes in average, but the verify process takes again 10 hours!!
This wish is on here already but a think the ability to break up the TIB file is a must, as people who are using Delta Replication tools like RSYNC or use RSYNC in someway or DFSR will have trouble generating the Delta on large files. For example I have a 2 core Xeon and it takes 14 hours to generate the delta's on 460 GB+ each day. If I could break up the files into 50GB or under I know the operation would be much quicker.
Thanks
Nigel
Please please add the simple function of displaying backup result in the email subject.
We are currently at vmProtect8 and I still have to open the email to see if the result is failed or success...a hell of a job with dozens of emails being received daily.
Acronis Backup & Restore shows backup status in the email subject so why can't vmProtect?
Teun
- possibility to run a script after backup (to start a dublication-job to tape or other media with Symantec BE via Powershell)
- dublicate to tape
Please, implement full settings backup/restore.
Backup bundle should include: tasks, passwords, licenses, default recovery & backup settings - everything that may be set up by hands.
Please, implement the remote automation interface.
The interface may be built on top of web-console or telnet/ssh.
The interface should be easily scriptable (e.g. CGI application). PowerShell would be nice.
The interface should contain:
1. List scheduled tasks.
2. Get the task status (running/stopped), the date last run and the last run status (success/failure/warning).
3. Start the task.
4. Stop running task.
5. Query storage usage.
6. List stored backups.
7. List recovery points per backup (date created, size).
8. List replicas.
9. Failover/Failback the replica.
i have a new request
instead of planning a window of each backup job why not order them in execution?
as running too many jobs will increase the load average on the appliance soo much that the backups will run slow
in a sense its faster to run them one by one after each other.. or if needed run two at a time
in a sense you would need to group the jobs together that would run sequentially.
then you dictate the start of a group and these jobs will execute after each other, perhaps a seperation with dual destination could also be configurable.
Hello Vasily,
I think I have a great Idea request....
I am building an OTA environment and we want to replicate some PRD servers to OTA on a weekly basis.
Now you would say you can do this with VMP replicate... but its much more work.. because the Replica of PRD in OTA will be powered on..
and there is no automatic mechanism in replicate... to powerdown the replica before doing a replicate.. you have to do this manual or by script... and then there is also no mechanism to poweron the machine after the replicate except from manual poweron or scripting...
BUT VMP HAS exactly this mechanism when doing a restore!
It powers down the VM.
Does its restore...
And powers on the VM again..
That is great I thought...
Now the request...
I would really want to be able to schedule a incremental restore job and do an vmflashback restore of it at the OTA
(REQUEST ONE: Do an incremental restore of a Clone or Replica of a VM in another Vmware environment when the Backup is from the PRD machine).
I want the schedules incremental restore job to automatically restore from the most recent Recovery Point in the backup!
(REQUEST TWO: being able to schedule a restore).
(REQUEST THREE: scheduled restore jobs automatically takes last Recovery Point).
That would be really awesome..
So maybe you can build this option in VMP.. .and maybe also the ability when you do use the replicate in VMP to poweroff the target VM and poweron again when the replicate is done..
Variables to the Email Subject Line
+1
I would low to be able to do things like this for the subject line
Variables could include
%TYPE% - Disaster Recovery Plan, Backup
%STATUS% - Success, Failure
%VMName% - The vm name being backed up
%AgentName% - The hostname of the vmProtect Agent
Subject could then be
%STATUS% - %TYPE% for %VMName% from %AgentName%
Example output
SUCCESS - Disaster Recovery Plan for MyVM from vmProtect-Agent1
FAILURE - Backup for MyVM from vmProtect-Agent2
SUCCESS - Backup for MyVM from vmProtect-Agent3
Thoughts on how else to improve?