Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

Virtual machine and proxy relationships within groups

Consider the following simplified example configuration:

Virtual machines VM-1 and VM-2 store their data in DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2, respectively.

Within Avamar Administrator, proxies have been assigned to protect vCenter datastores as follows:

• PROXY-1 has been assigned to DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2
• PROXY-2 has been assigned to DATASTORE-2
• PROXY-3 has been assigned to DATASTORE-3

Datastore assignments are made at the proxy level in the Edit Client dialog box.

A group (GROUP-1) is created, to which virtual machines VM-1 and VM-2 are added.

In order to protect these virtual machines, proxies must also be added to the group as follows:

• PROXY-1, because it is assigned to both DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2, can protect both VM-1 and VM-2.
• PROXY-2, because it is only assigned to DATASTORE-2, is optional as long as Proxy-1 exists in the group.
• PROXY-3, because it is only assigned to DATASTORE-3, cannot protect either VM-1 or VM-2.

Every group must include enough proxies to support all the datastores assigned to every client. Otherwise, when a backup is initiated and a proxy cannot be located to perform the backup, the backup will fail with an Activity monitor status of no proxy.