NetBackup character restrictions for virtual machine names
When you configure a policy to back up the virtual machines of a Acropolis cluster, add those virtual machines as NetBackup clients. To add a virtual machine to the backup policy, you must provide the display name of the virtual machine.
You can obtain the name of the virtual machine from the VM Name column on the Prism web console.
The name of the virtual machine is case-sensitive. Certain characters are not allowed in the virtual machine name. If the particular VM name contains wrong or invalid characters, then the backup of that particular VM may fail.
For NetBackup, the following characters are allowed in the virtual machine names:
Uppercase and lowercase ASCII characters
Numbers
Period (.)
Display name cannot end with a period.
Hyphen (-)
Display name cannot start with a hyphen.
Underscore (_)
Plus sign (+)
Percent sign (%)
When you specify display name, replace the % character with %25.
Left and right parentheses ()
Spaces
For policy
No need to replace space with %20 in the command line, but the Admin Console does not accept space for VM name. Replace space with %20.
If the VM name itself contains %20. Replace %20 with %2520.
The following characters are not supported for virtual machine names:
Chinese characters and other multi-byte characters are not supported in display name.
Any other characters that are not mentioned in the supported list.