Request: List disabled VMs as such in the console

[Gustav]

If you disable a VM in the console, it becomes listed with a stop signed icon as well as a check mark at entry Disable processing:



However, if you navigate to another host and then back again, both the stop sign and the check mark are gone.

The only way to discover this, when you wonder why the VM is zipped in zero seconds to zero bytes, is to locate the log file and find an innocent entry in the log file that points you in the right direction:

• Removing excluded VMs

and then, at once:

• Job has been stopped successfully.

which, of course, isn't possible in 1/10 of a second:

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[15.04.2023 11:23:18.487] <01> Info         Expanding policies ('0' objects)
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.487] <01> Info         Retrieved 2 hierarchy objects, 0 SCVMM(s), 0 Cluster(s), 0 Host(s), 2 Virtual Machine(s), 0 Volume(s)
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.503] <01> Info         Removing excluded VMs 
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.519] <01> Info         Creating plain list of tasks:
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.566] <01> Info         [SharedSnapshotHolder] Printing shared snapshot contexts
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.566] <01> Info         Created task order:
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.566] <01> Info         Licensing hosts from all backup tasks
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.582] <01> Info         
[15.04.2023 11:23:18.598] <01> Info         Job has been stopped successfully. Name: [tsfionia_2023-04-15T112308], JobId: [ec722dde-0c17-4fb7-8f4b-2ce7a469c290]

To recover from this, mark the VM again as disabled and, at once, unmark it.

[Mildur]

Hello Gustav

Interesting. Seeing the same for Hyper-V, but not for vSphere.
This is a cosmetic bug for Hyper-V VMs. The machine stays excluded.
You can find it in Global Exclusions:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Best,
Fabian

[Gustav]

Thanks! I've never noticed the VM Exclusions menu entry.
Using it, however, will most likely be caused only by the fact that you are aware of some exclusions.

Thus, the issue is sligtly more than cosmetic, indeed as the e-mailed notification following a backup is completely silent about excluded machines.