Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

VMware encryption support limitations

Consider the following known limitations of Avamar for VMware encryption support.

As a result of disabling NoNFCSession, backup and restore in VMware Cloud on AWS is not supported. This VMware limitation is addressed in the vddk update.
When restoring from an encrypted virtual machine and backup, the restored data is unencrypted.
Restoring virtual machines requires that the target vCenter is configured for the same Key Management Service (KMS) host as the source vCenter.
Attempts to perform an application-consistent quiesce snapshot on an encrypted virtual machine will fail back to a file system-consistent snapshot. This process generates an error message in vCenter, which you can ignore. This is a VMware limitation.
When restoring a virtual machine as a new image:
- By default, new virtual machines are not encrypted. If encryption is desired, apply the required storage policy.
- For cases where a boot order other than the default was implemented before the image backup was performed, the original boot order is not restored. In this case, you must select the correct boot device after the restore completes. Alternatively, you can enter the non-default boot order to the VMX file so that the restored virtual machine starts without any reconfiguration.
  This limitation does not affect virtual machines that use the default boot order.