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How to Filter vmware VMs by an IP range

  • 8 April 2024
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Hello - 

 

Windows environment Commvault 11.28.107.

For a vcenter client Im having a difficulty in trying to filter VMs by an IP range.   Is this even possible.  Thanks in advance

 

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Hello @bc1410 

Thanks for the great question!
You can achieve this by using the custom attribute as outlined in the following: 
https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/creating_vm_group_for_vmware.html

But i ask the question why you would want to do it by an IP range? 

I feel that using Tagging would be a cleaner and safer solution then using an IP range. 

Hope this helps!

Kind regards
Albert Williams

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Thanks Albert.

I still consider myself a rookie with commvault.  I will take a look at the link you provided to see if I can get this completed.   The reason for just using IPs instead of Tags is hopefully just a temporary task as we are moving our VM backups from netbackup to commvault.  So if I was to use the tag “test” for example it would most likely pull other VMs other then the approved VMs to be moved to the commvault environment for backups etc..

 

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Hello @bc1410 

Thanks for the extra details. As long as you are using a unique tag it should not collect any VM’s that are not approved. 

Either way using tags will be a lot better than IP range as they are more dynamic and subject to collection of incorrect VM’s during the discovery. Tags are static.
 

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Albert Williams

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