NVP-vProxy: How To Identify a VM Name From the UUID Presented In NetWorker

The VM backup session logs contain detailed information about the VM:

The following options can be used to identify either the MoReF, UUID, and VM Name.

1. If you would like to know what VM corresponds to a UUID, you can run the following mminfo command:

[root@nsr ~]# mminfo -kot -t yesterday -r name,vmname,ssid
 name                          vm_name   ssid
vm:503ea434-0331-8ed6-8b19-b9cd408cce7a:vcsa.amer.lan win-sql01.amer.lan 3521929707
vm:503edaab-e481-b0e7-1433-835e23dd2a5d:vcsa.amer.lan sles-client01.amer.lan 3505152494
vm:503e178f-6982-0b07-36b2-c46c6d3ec4c9:vcsa.amer.lan rhel-client01.amer.lan 3488375279
vm:503e7439-7053-9fc0-6c26-02f5f021b289:vcsa.amer.lan win-client01.amer.lan 3471598063

Using the save set ID (ssid) of a VM backup, run the following command to get the expanded save set details:

mminfo -aS -q ssid=SSID

Example:

[root@nsr ~]# mminfo -aS -q ssid=3471598063
ssid=3471598063 savetime=04/01/2025 06:00:16 PM (1743544816) vcsa.amer.lan:vm:503e7439-7053-9fc0-6c26-02f5f021b289:vcsa.amer.lan
...
  \"template\": false,
  \"moref-id\": \"vm-17020\",
  \"vcenter-name\": \"vcsa.amer.lan\",
  \"path\": \"/vSAN Datacenter/vSAN Cluster/win-client01.amer.lan\",
...
                    *vm_name: win-client01.amer.lan;
                    *vm_uuid: 503e7439-7053-9fc0-6c26-02f5f021b289;
                       group: VMware_ScheduledImageProtection;
            saveset features: CLIENT_SAVETIME;
  Clone #1: cloneid=1743544815  time=04/01/2025 06:00:15 PM    retent=04/15/2025  flags=
    frag@         0 volid=4282791827 file/rec=       0/0     rn=0 last=04/01/2025

The above output displays both the VM's MoRef and UUID values at the time of backup.

2. If the VM cannot be identified from the above, then the following can be performed.

[root@nsr ~]# nsrpolicy group display -g VMware_ManualImageProtection
...
                  work items: \
"{\"vcenter_name\":\"vcsa.amer.lan\",\"clients\":[{\"moref-id\":\"vm-17023\",\"\
uuid\":\"503e178f-6982-0b07-36b2-c46c6d3ec4c9\",\"type\":\"VirtualMachine\"},{\
\"moref-id\":\"vm-17025\",\"uuid\":\"503e3332-5195-095b-9453-26e57d29fa59\",\"\
type\":\"VirtualMachine\"},{\"moref-id\":\"vm-17026\",\"uuid\":\"503ea3fa-077f\
-b36c-fa2b-c3e4b5a8f69e\",\"type\":\"VirtualMachine\"},{\"moref-id\":\"vm-2106\
0\",\"uuid\":\"503edaab-e481-b0e7-1433-835e23dd2a5d\",\"type\":\"VirtualMachin\
e\"},{\"moref-id\":\"vm-17020\",\"uuid\":\"503e7439-7053-9fc0-6c26-02f5f021b28\
9\",\"type\":\"VirtualMachine\"},{\"moref-id\":\"vm-17021\",\"uuid\":\"503eab8\
a-0389-8955-61fa-0072b25ae06f\",\"type\":\"VirtualMachine\"},{\"moref-id\":\"v\
m-17022\",\"uuid\":\"503ee0a2-7b12-0a0e-9dbd-7171a9db37a8\",\"type\":\"Virtual\
Machine\"}]}";
         work items disabled: ;

3. Search the vCenter's Managed Object Browser (MOB) for the VM:

• Open a web browser and navigate to https://vcenter_hostname_or_ip/mob (this requires administrative access to the vCenter)
• For detailed instructions on how to navigate the vCenter MOB see: NetWorker: How To Collect MoReF (Managed Object Reference) Values for VMware Virtual Machines
• The VM MoReF and name appear under the datastore in which the VM resides:

Alternatively, use the NetWorker server's nsrvim command to return information from the vCenter's inventory:

nsrvim -d VCENTER_NAME

Where VCENTER_NAME is the name of the vCenter, as it was added in NetWorker.

The above nsrvim command creates three .xml file. On Linux NetWorker server's, the .xml files can be found under /nsr/cores/nsrvim. On Windows NetWorker server's, the files are created in the same directory from which the command was run. The VCENTER_NAME.xml contains information about the VMs:

• NetWorker NVP vProxy: Confirm that a VM save set resides on the Data Domain file system
• NVP vProxy-Understanding VMware VM backup levels and sizes shown in NetWorker