Feature request: Show Drive Serial Number in overview

[christian.naenny]

Hello everyone,

This should be an easy one to implement in one of the future versions:
It would be nice if the tape drive serial number would be displayed in the list view of the drives after clicking on the Drives of a library in the Tape Infrastructure tab.

Thanks,
Christian

[Mildur]

Hi Christian

Thanks for the request.
Could you please explain the use case for having them in the overview table? Is it important for your companies daily management tasks?

As an alternative, you can export a list over PowerShell:

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Get-VBRTapeDrive | ft name,serialnumber,model,state -autosize

Thanks
Fabian

[christian.naenny]

Hi Fabian
Sure, I can also get the serial number of the tape drive by clicking on Properties after a right click on the drive in the overview.
But the serial number is the only parameter that is the same in the Veeam GUI and in the management GUI of our IBM TS4500 tape library. The names (Drive 1 (Drive ID: Tape4)) are quite arbitrary!
As almost all the other parameters (Name, Model, State, Loaded Media) are already shown in the overview I thought it might be handy to have the only sure identifier displayed as well. I'm more surprised that the serial number was deliberately left out in the overview! Why?
Thanks,
Christian

[Mildur]

Hi Christian

Understood.
The Drive ID: we display as the name is the one windows has stored for this device.


I can't say why this was done this way. Let me check, if we can make the ID available in a future version of VBR.

Thanks
Fabian

[vmtech123]

I like this feature idea.

If a drive has errors in the TS4500, or I want to take one offline sometimes it's a bit of effort to find out if it's Tape1 etc.