PostJob workaround for current V7 Bug

[Bunce]

Hey All,

There's a slight bug in replication jobs that useDisk Exclusions in V7 - the jobs won't run.. The workaround is to create the 'excluded' disk on the Replica - thin provisioned to prevent using up any space - so that the job still runs. Refer this post for more detail:
http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17636

The problem is that after a successful job run, the disks on the replica are removed, so any subsequent jobs will fail unless they are manually re-added again. We have quite a few replication jobs, and manually recreating the disk for each job, after each run, until a fix is found, isn't really viable.

So I figured a post-job script to re-add the disks to the replica would be worth trying. I''m OK with powershell, but haven't had much experience with Veeam PS snap-in as yet..

Three questions come to mind:

• Can we piggy back off Veeam's PS shell to make VM vmdk changes, or do I have to shell into the PowerCLI?
• Rather than create an individual script for each Job, can we pass the current job name (that calls the script) as a parameter in the post-job activity command?
• Does anyone have any tips or snippets that might help me get started?

I'm thinking script would follow the below (pseudocode):

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$JobName (pipe in)

For each VM in JobName
	For each VMDK in SOURCE VM
		- If TARGET VM doesn't have matching disk at SCSI ID
			- Create VMDK (thin provisioned, of same size/SCSI ID as source)
		- End If
	Next VMDK
Next VM

Thanks in advance,
Andrew

[veremin]

Can we piggy back off Veeam's PS shell to make VM vmdk changes, or do I have to shell into the PowerCLI?

PowerCLI

Rather than create an individual script for each Job, can we pass the current job name (that calls the script) as a parameter in the post-job activity command?

I believe it’s not. Though, you can find within the script a name of replication job that has just finished:

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Get-VBRJob | where {$_.jobtype -eq "replica"} | sort-object {$_.FindLastSession().endtime} -Descending | Select-Object name -First 1 

Thanks.