I'm hoping someone might be able to assist with the following, basically trying to understand VMware and avamar integration:

My question is essentially this: I have a vCenter instance added to my Avamar system, I then want to "import" the clients within that vcenter instance.

1. I select a container, lets call it "Network" - within that container there are 5 x vms, vm1, vm2, vm3, vm4 and vm5.
2. I select "Dynamic" and "Recursive Protection", expand the "Network container and highlight all 5 vms + the Network container
3. When imported into Avamar I see a "Network" container and when I expand that container I see the 5 vm's - so gar so good.
4. I now want to create a backup group for these vm's
5. In Policy I select "New Backup Group" and after naming the group eg: "Test" I choose the dataset, schedule, retention period and then get to the members selection tab.
6. If I select "Network" at a container level, all 5 vms will be backed up, great, but I only want to back up vm1 and vm2 so I unselect the container and click on each vm individually, which then shows me the individual vms in the members list, not the container so my question is this:

Is that container still Dynamic? If a new vm was added to "Network" would it automatically get added to the "Test" backup group and be backed up as per the dynamic setting of the container? Or, because we have not added the Container "Network" to the group, just the individual vm's, anything added to that container would not get added to the "Test" backup group and will therefore not automatically get backed up? Does this mean that containers imported into Avamar can only be dynamic as long as you ONLY want to backup EVERYTHING within that container?

Also, when you import a container as dynamic - is there a way to edit it to change to change it back to static because I can't find where if there is -

Any opinions/feedback/answers appreciated.

Neil