Feature request: boolean support for tags on VM inclusion/exclusion

[M4rco]

My company is a hosting provider where we have many customers and support several RPO retention scheme's. We use VMware tags as selection method in Veeam backup jobs & Veeam backup copy jobs. Our primary selection criteria is a customer-id tag. A specific retention is accomplished by excluding all other retention-tags.

Examples:

possible RPO retentions: RT-7D, RT-14D, RT-30D
example customer-id: 1234, 5678

In order to give customer 1234 a retention of 14 days inclusion condition is: tag=1234, exclusion condition is: tag=RT-7D & tag=RT-30D.
In order to give customer 5678 a retention of 7 days inclusion condition is: tag=5678, exclusion condition is: tag=RT-14D & tag=RT-30D.

For us it would be a great improvement if Veeam would allow for VM selection based on tags with boolean conditions, most preferred would be AND support.

Examples:

In order to give customer 1234 a retention of 14 days inclusion condition is: tag=1234 AND tag=RT-14D, no need for exclusion tags
In order to give customer 5678 a retention of 7 days inclusion condition is: tag=5678 AND tag=RT-7D, no need for exclusion tags

Obviously more advanced selection criteria would be possible when there is also support for other boolean operators like OR and NOT.

Is this a type of feature request Veeam would consider? Even better: is this maybe something which is already on the roadmap?

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi @M4rco,

By AND boolean you mean tag combination? When only those VMs assigned with ALL selected tags are processed by a job?

Thanks,
Oleg

[M4rco]

Correct, that is what I mean.

[Gostev]

This is coming in v11.

[M4rco]

Good news! Can't wait....