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Checkpoint Manager on servers - Need a checkpoint manager for individual servers that ties to the underlying Hypervisor/Cluster #249

Open sabap opened 2 years ago

sabap commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. System admins have no way to create checkpoints on their servers without granting them access to the entire Hyper-V hosts and clusters.

Describe the solution you'd like We would like for our system admins to have the ability to create checkpoints on their servers, without having to grant them access to the Hyper-V hosts and clusters. Granting access to the Hyper-V hosts gives them way too much to mess up (Just imaging a sys admin deleting a virtual switch or changing a shared cluster storage patch... YIKES!). If WAC could determine if a server is a role on a Hyper-V cluster and offer a button or tab for checkpoint management, that would be great.

Describe alternatives you've considered We are currently using SCVMM for this and creating "Clouds" for each application. Servers belonging to said application are added to their "cloud" and permissions to said cloud are granted to the system admin(s) for that application. This keeps system admins out of servers they do not belong in, yet gives them the ability to create and manage checkpoints, which is crucial for updates and changes. We would like to move away from SCVMM and use WAC, but this is hindering that migration.

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priyasatheesh commented 1 year ago

thanks @Matt Elsberry for your suggestion. This would such a powerful feature in Windows Admin Center.