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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Continuous data protection
  4. Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Removing VMs from the CDP gateway

When CDP protection is no longer required for a VM, you can remove protections from that VM, or switch the VM to classic policy.

To remove CDP protection from a VM

  1. Go to vCenter and change the VM's storage policy from vtstap to Datastore default.
  2. In the NetBackup web UI, on the left, click VMware under Workloads. You can see a list of VMs with protection details.
  3. Click the name of the VM, from which you want to remove protection, in the subsequent page, click Remove protection.

    You can see a confirmation message when the VM is removed.

If you remove protection from a VM without removing the vtstap policy from the VM, you can see a partially successful removal message in the UI. These partially removed VMs are not included in the Total VMs subscribed count in the Continuous data protection gateway tab.

Note:

The partially removed VMs are neither protected by CPD nor by any classic policy. Also, you cannot re-subscribe the VM to a CDP gateway. Hence, it is recommended to detach the vtstap storage policy from the VM, and fully unsubscribe the VM from the CDP gateway.

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