I use something like your "STAAAAHHHHPPP-procedure" and don't know of any way to do it using the plug-in, I don't think it can be done.
Part of your hypothetical problem might be to aggresive vSphere DRS settings that triggered these purely hypothetical vMotion jobs in vCenter, I find the default DRS setting to be way to jumpy and tone that setting back a bit. Stefan On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Prather, Wanda <[email protected]>wrote: > If I do a "run now" backup task/schedule from the plug-in, and decide it's > a bad thing (say hypothetically that I started a multiple-vm backup task > and noticed that it caused massive VMotion activity - just saying > hypothetically, not admitting anything, oh no, nothing to see here....) how > do you cancel a backup task from the plug-in? > > If hypothetically I really REALLY wanted to stop the active backup task, > one might suppose I could have hypothetically done it in a panic by > screaming STAAAAHHHHPPP!! several times loudly and killing the session from > the server end and shutting down dsmcad on the data mover vm, which is also > my plug-in server. But hypothetically there should be something I could do > instead from the plug-in, right? > > > > Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | [email protected] | > www.icfi.com > ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | > 410.539.1135 (o) >
