Report for snapshots older than x days

[JWester]

Hi,

is it possible to create a report which shows all VMs which have snapshots older than x days inside a specific ressource group or folder?

Right now I have 2 difficulties:
* I cannot select a filter with a timespan for a snapshot. I can only select a specific date. (e. g. "> 2013-12-19", but not "> 3 days")
* I can only select a scope of clusters and hosts, but not ressource group or folders. I tried to find a workaround with creating Business Groups, but no success yet.

Many thanks!

Regards
Joern

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Joern,

I cannot select a filter with a timespan for a snapshot. I can only select a specific date. (e. g. "> 2013-12-19", but not "> 3 days")

Do you look at Active Snapshots report template or something else? This report has a filter that you're after.

I can only select a scope of clusters and hosts, but not ressource group or folders. I tried to find a workaround with creating Business Groups, but no success yet.

Can you please elaborate on this a bit more? If you select the entire VI and then apply BV group filter it should give you the result you want.

Thanks!

[JWester]

Hi Vitaliy,

Do you look at Active Snapshots report template or something else? This report has a filter that you're after.

yes, this would work.

Can you please elaborate on this a bit more? If you select the entire VI and then apply BV group filter it should give you the result you want.

Yes, but I cannot create a matching BV group for this:
We have organized all VM in folders and/or ressource group, which are named after the organizational units responsible for the VMs. One OU shall only get the snapshots reports for the VMs inside their subtree.
I could filter through folder or ressource group.
Folders are nested, I need the parent folder, but I can only select groups from the "child" (= leaf) folder.
For ressource groups I cannot find a BV grouping expression.

many thanks
Joern

[Vitaliy S.]

Folders are nested, I need the parent folder, but I can only select groups from the "child" (= leaf) folder.
For resource groups I cannot find a BV grouping expression.

To categorize objects with nested folders and RPs, please use our categorization rules, as these objects are "not visible" for grouping expressions.

[JWester]

Hi Vitaliy,

To categorize objects with nested folders and RPs, please use our categorization rules, as these objects are "not visible" for grouping expressions.

could you provide an example? I'm stuck.
many thanks!

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, sure. What I was referring to is static rule, see this link (page 255) for more info > http://www.veeam.com/veeamone_7_0_userg ... are_pg.pdf