OnCommand host and Vmware backups

carstensejer — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:31:59 GMT

Just a couple of questions that came up when setting up Vmware backups with OC host:

- Any estimate on when Protection Manager is updated to support and show the Vmware jobs correctly? Currently only start/stop and SV job steps are shown correctly. The backup steps of vm's can only be seen on OnCommand web gui.

- Is it possible to get a more detailed email report with successful/failed vm's been backed up, like with VSC? Only a very generel email report is being sent.

Re: OnCommand host and Vmware backups

adaikkap — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:53:16 GMT

Hi,

Yes, OnCommand also has events that are generated based on a protection jobs status. Below are some of the events you may be of interest.

[root@10 ~]# dfm eventtype list | grep -i dataset

dataset-backup:aborted Warning dataset-backup

dataset-backup:completed Normal dataset-backup

dataset-backup:deleted Normal dataset-backup

dataset-backup:failed Error dataset-backup

dataset-backup:prematurely-deleted Warning dataset-backup

dataset-protection:lag-error	Error	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:lag-warning	Warning	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:no-app-policy	Normal	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:protected	Normal	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:protection-failure	Warning	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:suspended	Warning	dataset.protection
dataset-protection:uninitialized	Normal	dataset.protection

dataset-restore:aborted	Warning	dataset-restore
dataset-restore:completed	Normal	dataset-restore
dataset-restore:failed	Error	dataset-restore

Regards

adai

Re: OnCommand host and Vmware backups

carstensejer — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:42:57 GMT

Those events would only tell me if the dataset has completed backup succesfully, correct?

If I have a dataset with a NFS datastore and Vmware consistent snapshots, I can't see which individually virtual machines has succeded or failed.

In SMVI its possible to get a email with this info.

Re: OnCommand host and Vmware backups

stjerna — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:09:56 GMT

I have been looking at a way to achieve this. Never got around of finishing anything but just to get you an idea of how to get hold of info.

Below is a cut and paste of my findings from back then.

From a command promt on the OnCommand server run “dfpm backup list”. This will obviously list all backups taken.

You have one separate backup id for each backup taken, below it is backup ids 95 and 94. 95 is the latest backup.

If you then run “dfpm backup ls –a 95” this command will show you details of this backup job.

Each row that contains this text “Virtualization.VMware.VM” will be a backup for a separate server. In this case below, it will be server vc1 and lnx1 that have a complete backup.

If the column “Restorable” says “YES” the backup have completed normal.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> dfpm backup list

Backup Id Backup Version Retention Type Retention Duration (in seconds) Node Name Description Dataset Properties(Name=Value) Matched field

--------- --------------------- -------------- --------------------------------- -------------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------

95 14 sep 2011 11:00:00 hourly 172800 Primary data Dataset1 CreateVmwareSnapshot=false IncludeIndependentDisks=false

94 14 sep 2011 10:00:00 hourly 172800 Primary data Dataset1 CreateVmwareSnapshot=false IncludeIndependentDisks=false

....

PS C:\Users\Administrator> dfpm backup ls -a 95

Member Id Type Object Name At Backup Restorable? Properties(Name=Value)

---------- ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------------ -------------------------

438 Storage.ONTAP.StorageSystem 192.168.100.21 NO system-id=1574126193 system-name=spica

412 Virtualization.VMware.Datacenter STO-OFFICE NO

443 Virtualization.VMware.VMConfig vc1-Virtualization.VMware.VMConfig NO Files=[DS1] vc1/vc1.vmx:VirtualMachine,[DS1] vc1//vc1.vmxf:Configuration,[DS1] vc1//vc1.nvram:Configuration,[DS1] vc1//vc1.vmsd:Configuration,[DS1] vc1//vmware-1.log:Log,[DS1] vc1//vmware.log:Log,[DS1] vc1//vmware-2.log:Log,[DS1] vc1//vmware-3.log:Log,[DS1] vc1

440 Storage.ONTAP.NFSExport /vol/esx_ds1 NO

444 Virtualization.VMware.VM vc1 YES PartialBackup=false SnapshotTakenForVM=false IsTemplate=false

442 Virtualization.VMware.VDisk Hard disk 1 YES Adapter=lsiLogic Bus=0 ExcludedFromBackup=false Files=[DS1] vc1/vc1.vmdk:VirtualDisk,[DS1] vc1/vc1-flat.vmdk:VirtualDisk Id=52f89d4f-be3d-281f-487f-324e49986349:6000C293-4ac3-fb7a-1c96-cc9dc3d963dd Independent=false RawDeviceMapping=false Unit=0

406 Virtualization.VMware.Vsphere 10.68.73.9 NO

441 Virtualization.VMware.Datastore DS1 YES PartialBackup=false DatastoreType=NFS IsOntap=true

419 Virtualization.VMware.HyperVisor esx1.sto-demo.europe.netapp.com NO

439 Storage.ONTAP.Volume esx_ds1 NO uuid=9cef0528-d016-11e0-af82-00a09817429a

420 Virtualization.VMware.HyperVisor esx2.sto-demo.europe.netapp.com NO

457 Virtualization.VMware.VM lnx1 YES PartialBackup=false SnapshotTakenForVM=false IsTemplate=false

456 Virtualization.VMware.VMConfig lnx1-Virtualization.VMware.VMConfig NO Files=[DS1] lnx1/lnx1.vmx:VirtualMachine,[DS1] lnx1//lnx1.vmxf:Configuration,[DS1] lnx1//lnx1.nvram:Configuration,[DS1] lnx1//lnx1.vmsd:Configuration,[DS1] lnx1//vmware.log:Log,[DS1] lnx1//vmware-1.log:Log,[DS1] lnx1//vmware-2.log:Log,[DS1] lnx1/lnx1-b13e93b6.v

455 Virtualization.VMware.VDisk Hard disk 1 YES Adapter=lsiLogic Bus=0 ExcludedFromBackup=false Files=[DS1] lnx1/lnx1.vmdk:VirtualDisk,[DS1] lnx1/lnx1-flat.vmdk:VirtualDisk Id=503ca97a-109f-56e4-18d8-7fd5201bea70:6000C29c-2c01-dcbe-bb0c-67a0ff9b5ebd Independent=false RawDeviceMapping=false Unit=0

PS C:\Users\Administrator>

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