Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Auto-discovery of virtual machines

With Avamar release 7.4, you can configure Avamar vCenter clients to auto-discover VMs that have been added to the vCenter. When the VMs are auto-discovered, user-defined rules are used by the Avamar software to map the auto-discovered VMs to Avamar domains. User-defined rules are also used to automatically assign backup policies to auto-discovered VMs.

In addition to auto-discovering new VMs, vMotion of VMs from one vCenter to another is also automatically detected by the Avamar software. If the new vCenter hosting the VM is configured in Avamar, the VM is automatically moved from the original vCenter client to the new vCenter client using the same user-defined rules to assign its domain and backup policy. If a VM is deleted from vCenter, it is automatically removed from the vCenter client.

The auto-discover feature is supported with vCenter 5.5 and later releases. However, the vCenter must be at release 6.0 or greater to the use of VM Tags in rules. When protecting ESXi hosts instead of vCenter, only VM names and the root folder are supported in rules.

As tag modification is not triggered by an event, if you are modifying tags on virtual machines, sync with vCenter operation immediately to make the tag change to be effective. If you do not want to do this operation, the change is effective in these situations:

1. Restart Management Console Server.
2. Wait for every 12 hours full scan schedule.
3. Update vCenter, such as add or delete rule domain mapping.