Protected and Unprotected VMs report

The Protected and Unprotected VMs report shows the protection status of your virtual machines.The report displays the total number of virtual machines added to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plusinventory before backup jobs are started.

Category

Protection

paramValues

Assume that you want to use the following options for the Protected and Unprotected VMs report:

  • Virtualized system type: VMware

  • Hypervisors or Amazon EC2 accounts: BlueMachines vCenter - Dallas ({hypervisorHypervisorId} 1001)

  • Hide unprotected virtual machines: No

  • Show only the virtual machines with object storage copy backups: No

  • Tags: Sales

To use the listed options, the paramValues key will have the following JSON object:

{
    "NodeCascadingParameterGroup-HypervisorType": "vmware",
    "NodeCascadingParameterGroup-Hypervisor":     ["1001"],
    "UnprotectedVMs":                             false,
    "OffloadedVMs":                               false,
    "tags":                                       ["Dallas-Production"]
}

paramValues 1: NodeCascadingParameterGroup-HypervisorType

Specify a type of the virtualized systems:

  • Value: Use one of the following values:

Virtualized system type

NodeCascadingParameterGroup-HypervisorType

All

(All)

VMware

vmware

Hyper-V

hyperv

Amazon EC2

awsec2

  • Type: System string. Required. Avaiable in the web user interface.

paramValues 2: NodeCascadingParameterGroup-Hypervisor

Specify the hypervisor or the Amazon EC2 account.

Tip

To get a {hypervisorHypervisorId} by hostname/IP, follow the instructions in Getting a {hypervisorHypervisorId}.

  • Type: List (string). Required. Avaiable in the web user interface.

paramValues 3: UnprotectedVMs

Indication of whether the result omits unprotected virtual machines.

  • Type: Boolean. Required. Avaiable in the web user interface.

paramValues 4: OffloadedVMs

Indication of whether the result shows only the virtual machines with object storage copy backups.

  • Type: Boolean. Required. Avaiable in the web user interface.

paramValues 5: tags

Tag names for VMware instances. Or, you can use (All) to select all tags.

  • Example: ["Dallas-Production"]

  • Type: List (string). Required. Avaiable in the web user interface.

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Figure 69 The option menus in the web browser interface

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Figure 70 An example report.