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Automatic virtual machine selection: Task overview

This topic is a high-level overview of how to set up a NetBackup policy for automatic selection of VMware virtual machines. Follow the links in the table for more details.

Table: Automatic selection of virtual machines: overview of the tasks

Steps to configure automatic selection	Description and notes
Configure a VMware policy.	Use the policy Attributes tab. See Configure a VMware policy.
Set rules for virtual machine selection in the policy Query builder.	On the policy Clients tab, select Select automatically through VMware intelligent policy query. Choose a host for virtual machine selection (the default is the VMware backup host). To add rules, use the Query builder fields. See Configure automatic virtual machine selection. See Options for selecting VMware virtual machines.
Test the rules.	On the Clients tab, select Test query. Virtual machines are labeled as included or excluded, based on the rules. Note: The list of virtual machines is not saved in the Clients tab.
Run a backup.	When the policy runs, NetBackup consults the rules in the Query builder, creates a list of virtual machines, and backs them up.
Monitor the backup.	To see which virtual machines were backed up, use the Activity monitor. See Monitor virtual machine backups.

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