Using proxycp.jar to retire VMs

I have uploaded a new version to the same location, please try again and let me know the result.

Now it moves them into the MC_RETIRED folder, but as soon as a sync with vcenter is run, they pop back into the Avamar ready to try backups again.   Is this temporarily disabling dynamic containers before retiring?

EDIT:

I tried it the way described below, and have the same issue.   There seems to be no way to retire VM's you don't want to backup.

"Please edit the property of "parent" container (VMFolder/ResourcePool/ESX) of this VM from "policy->client" window and change it from "dynamic" to "static" and try to run proxycp again and it should retire the client properly. Once the client is retired change the property back to "dynamic".

This VM is located under multiple subfolders in vCenter so i disabled "Dynamic Mode" on every parent folder (VM is in the root of L2 subfolder) , still no luck."

Jeff,

you simply do not want to backup this VM or this VM will be retired but have yet to be deleted out of vCenter ?  I would like to switch to folder based backup and trying to work through the different scenarios with my VMware guys.

Some vm's in both scenarios.   Some we cannot backup as a snapshot causes the application on the vm to fail, some we are told are going to be decomm'd before they are deleted from the vcenter.   Are you asking me to switch to folder based backup?

If you are using the ContainerClient feature there is no way to "exclude" particular VM from a given container. Only option you have is to either make "container" static (You will loose dynamic properties like auto import etc.)

Regards

Amol Powar

I also am having a problem with the proxycp.jar (latest version) , but in my case I am trying to use the --deleteclientswithnobackups option also from a VMcontainer (have tried setting the folder to static, makes no difference), now it will list the VM's with no backups (--listclientswithnobackups) okay, and it looks like it is deleting when running with the deleteclientswithnobackups option, you get the following output.

COMMAND : java -jar proxycp.jar --deleteclientswithnobackups --domain /ukwkmh-vira001/ContainerClients

VDP/Nemo Detected : false

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No Backups                                        /ukwkmh-vira001/ContainerClients/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Template

Deleted                                           true

No Backups                                        /ukwkmh-vira001/ContainerClients/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Template

Deleted                                           true

but it has not deleted them, is there a log I can switch on/ look at to find out what is happening.b.t.w. this works fine in a non VMware folder (domain)