Excluding virtual disks from the SLA policy for a job

After you save a backup job definition, you can exclude individual virtual disks in a virtual machine from the SLA policy that is assigned to the job.

Before you begin

Excluding one or more virtual disks from a backup operation can impact the success of recovery. Consider the following information prior to excluding a virtual disk from a Hyper-V backup operation.

For Instant Disk Restore, if a virtual disk is selected for a restore operation, an existing virtual machine (VM) is chosen as the destination. IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus mounts the restored disk to the chosen destination VM.
For Instant VM Restore, if the excluded virtual disk contains data that is necessary to boot the virtual machine, then the restored VM may fail to boot.
For VMs with Windows-based guests, the restored VM may fail to boot if the disk on which the main operating system is installed, typically the C: drive, was excluded during the backup operation.
For VMs with Linux-based guests, the restored VM may fail:
- If a disk containing the boot or root ( / ) partition was excluded during backup.
- If a disk containing a data (non-root) partition was excluded during backup, and the data volume did not have the 'nofail' option specified in /etc/fstab.

Procedure

To exclude virtual disks from the SLA policy that has been applied to a virtual machine:

In the navigation panel, click Manage Protection > Virtualized Systems > Hyper-V.
Select VMs in the View filter.
Click the link for the Hyper-V server that contains the virtual machine in the Name field.
Identify the virtual machine that contains the virtual disks to be excluded. If an SLA policy is already applied, it will be visible in the SLA Policy field.
Click the virtual machine name for the virtual machine to display the associated virtual disks.
Select the virtual disk that is to be excluded and then click Select SLA Policy.
Clear the selected SLA policy that is applied to the virtual disk in the SLA Policy pane.

Note: If multiple virtual disks are selected that are assigned to the same policy, the SLA policy will not appear as selected in the SLA Policy pane after clicking Select SLA Policy. Leave all SLA policies clear to exclude the virtual disks from the policy.
Click Save.