Subclient Properties (VM Filters)

Use this dialog box to add or edit filters for a subclient. Filters are criteria to exclude virtual machines or disks from backups.

Show Backupset Filters

Select this option to display filters defined at both the subclient and backup set levels. When this option is cleared, only subclient filters are shown on this tab; but backup set filters are still enforced.

VM Filters

Use this area to define criteria for filtering virtual machines from any subclient. When you perform the backup of a subclient, the virtual machines satisfying the specified criteria are automatically excluded from the backup.

This area displays a list of all the defined filters.

• Browse

  Click this button to open the browse dialog. This dialog provides hierarchical view of Hyper-V Cluster similar to Hyper-V Manager and also a consolidated view of all the disks and cluster shared volumes.

  Use this dialog box to browse the Hyper-V Cluster or disks and select hosts, virtual machines, disks, volumes etc.

  Once you select any object in this dialog box, its child objects are filtered automatically from the subclient.

• Add

  Click this button to open the Add Filters dialog. Use this dialog to define filters when you want to filter virtual machines based on a virtual machine name pattern or when you know the exact host name.

  You can define following types of filters:

  • VM Name/ Pattern: Select this option to filter virtual machines based on a virtual machine name pattern. For example, to filter all virtual machines that have a name starting with "Test", select this option and enter Test* in the available box.

  • Host: Select this option to filter all virtual machines from a specific host. Enter the host name or IP address in the text box.

  • Guest OS: Select this option to filter all virtual machines that have operating systems from a specific OS group. For example, you can enter Microsoft* to filter any virtual machine that has a version of the Windows operating system, *windows2012r2 to filter Windows 2012 R2 machines, or *linux* to filter all Linux machines.

  • Guest DNS Hostname: Select this option to filter all virtual machines based on a hostname pattern. For example, to filter all virtual machines that have a hostname ending with "mycompany.com", select this option and enter *mycompany.com in the text box.

  • Power State: Select the power on status of the virtual machines to be filtered from subclient content. You can select from one of the following options:

    • Powered On: Identify VMs that are powered on.

    • Powered Off: Identify VMs that are powered off.

    • Other: Identify VMs with a different power on status, such as Pause or Saved.

  • Notes: Enter a pattern to identify the VMs based on the notes description. (for example, Test* to identify VMs with a notes description that begin with "Test").

• Edit

  Select a VM filter to modify for the subclient and click Edit.

• Delete

  Select a VM filter to delete from the subclient and click Delete.

VM Disk Filters

Use this area to identify virtual machine disks to exclude from backups. The VM Disk Filters area displays the pattern or virtual device nodes that were entered for each disk filter.

• Add

  Click this button to open the Add Disk Filter dialog. Select one of the following options:

  • Virtual Device Node: Select an IDE disk from the drop-down list.

  • VM Disk Name/Pattern: Enter a pattern using wildcard characters. For example, to select virtual machine disks that being with the characters "vm", enter vm*.

• Edit

  Select a VM disk filter to modify for the subclient and click Edit.

• Delete

  Select a VM disk filter to delete from the subclient and click Delete.