Viewing the backup status and backup history of a virtual machine

You can view the status of scheduled virtual machine (VM) backups in a host or cluster to identify the VMs that might require attention. You can also view the backup history of individual VMs.

1. Start the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console.
2. From the navigation pane, click a host or cluster.
3. Click the Virtual Machines tab.
4. In the VM table, view the status of the most recent scheduled backup operations of VMs in the host or cluster.

   A VM with a status of At Risk indicates that a last scheduled backup was missed or completed with errors.

5. To view the backup history of a VM, select a VM from the VM table.

   The backup history that is specific to that VM is shown in the Backup History table.

   The number of backup tasks that are shown in the Backup History table depends on the number of days that are set by the SET EVENTRETENTION command on the IBM Storage Protect server.

   For more information, see Virtual Machines view.

   Tip: If you are using a data mover command (dsmc) to access information about the VM backups, specify the following options with the dsmc command:

   • For clusters, include the following options:

     -optfile=hostname_HV_DM.opt
     -asnodename=clustername_HV_TGT

   • For a stand-alone host, include the following options:

     -optfile=hostname_HV_DM.opt
     -asnodename=hostname_HV_TGT

   Depending on the system configuration, the node name can also contain a prefix and suffix. In this case, specify the following options with the dsmc command:

   • For clusters, include the following options:

     -optfile=prefix_hostname_HV_DM_suffix.opt
     -asnodename=prefix_clustername_HV_TGT_suffix

   • For a stand-alone host, include the following options:

     -optfile=prefix_hostname_HV_DM_suffix.opt
     -asnodename=prefix_hostname_HV_TGT_suffix

   For example, use the following command syntax to query information about VM backups on the IBM Storage Protect server:

   dsmc query vm vmname -optfile=hostname_HV_DM.opt -asnodename=clustername_HV_TGT

   If you do not include the -asnodename and -optfile options in the dsmc query vm command, the output of the command will not match the VM backup results in the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Management Console.