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Cannot add a VM to a protection policy
Whenever I attempt to add a particular VM to one of my protection policies I get an error that says the policy was saved, but one or more VMs could not be added. The only thing interesting about this particular VM that I'm aware of is that it is the VCenter host. Should that make a difference?
Networker 8.1.1.2 on Windows 2012
EBR 1.0.1.9
Vsphere 5.1
vipin_joy
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October 22nd, 2014 07:00
Hello Patrick,
What is the exact error message that you receive after adding the VM? Also is the EMC Backup & Recovery (EBR) Virtual Backup Appliance displayed in the vSphere Web client?
patrickt333
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October 22nd, 2014 08:00
After selecting the VM and click OK, I get a popup which says:
When I look at the log viewer, it has two spectacularly useless entries
I've rummaged through the nsr directory but haven't found anything useful in those logs. I have several clients on this ESXi server backing up fine using this policy. I'm also unable to add it to any other policy.
Edit to add... Yes, the VBA appears in the web client.
Castromotorbox
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October 23rd, 2014 02:00
Hi Patrick,
First, if the Vm is your vcenter, it's maybe not a good idea to save it through VBA (or VADP) solution. During the remove of your Vmware snapshot, every other VBA Backup will freeze or failed. That's not occured if you are saving your vcenter with an agent. At least, that's what we have experienced.
For your Vm try that removing completely Vm from Appliance before to add it again:
In your Appliance (console):
mccli client show --recursive=true | grep client-name
Example: To find a client with name win2kx8 : mccli client show --recursive=true | grep win2kx8
0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.
Client Domain Client Type
------------------------ --------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
win2kx8 /vcenter.abc.local/VirtualMachines Virtual Machine
0,22512,Client was retired.
How to add restored VM to backup policy?
Hope it will help you
Greg
patrickt333
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October 24th, 2014 06:00
I've installed an agent on the box. Since the command you gave listed it as vcenter, rather than a virtual machine, it clearly sees it as different and I don't want to retire it for fear of screwing up the others.
Castromotorbox
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October 25th, 2014 00:00
Hi,
I guess backing up the vCenter in a traditional way (Agent) is the best way to save it.
Greg