Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

How independent and container protection interact

When a virtual machine is protected independently and as a container member, retiring or deleting that virtual machine requires special consideration.

Consider the following nested container structure and scenario:

In this example, vm-1 is added to Avamar as a virtual machine client and is independently protected. When the vApp-1 container is added to Avamar, vm-1 is also protected as a member of the vApp-1 container. Avamar recognizes that the same virtual machine exists in two contexts:

• Independently protected as stand-alone virtual machine client vm-1
• Protected as a member of vApp-1 container

If the vApp-1 container is retired or deleted, vm-1 continues to exist in Avamar as a stand-alone virtual machine client because it was explicitly added before it was protected as a member of the vApp-1 container. The stand-alone context supersedes the container member context. If you need to retire or delete vm-1, you cannot delete or retire the vApp-1 container. You must also retire or delete the stand-alone instance. If you do not delete the stand-alone instance, vm-1 continues to be protected by scheduled backups.