Reducing the time required for VM discovery in a large VMware environment
NetBackup VMware Intelligent Policies use query rules to automatically search and filter the vSphere environment. By default, the query rules search all the VMware servers in your environment. If the environment contains many VMware servers with many virtual machines, VM discovery may take a long time. You can speed up VM discovery by limiting the search to specific VMware servers or virtual machines.
The following is an example of a policy Query Builder rule that searches all VMware servers and all virtual machines:
vmware:/?filter=Displayname Contains "vm1"
To limit the search to particular servers or virtual machines, insert an additional expression in the Query Builder rule as explained in the following procedure.
To use the Administration Console to reduce the time required for VM discovery in a VMware environment
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, open the VMware Intelligent Policy.
- On the Clients tab of the policy, make sure Select automatically through VMware Intelligent Policy query is selected.
- In the Query Builder, click Advanced.
- Under Query (Advanced Mode), create one or more rules to search for VMs in specific VMware servers or for specific virtual machines.
Be aware that to create two or more rules, you must be in not . Additionally, each query rule must begin on its own line.
You can use the types of rules shown:
To search for VMs in a particular VMware server
vmware://VMware_server?filter=filter
To search for a specific virtual machine on a particular VMware server
vmware://VMware_server/vm/virtual_machine_instance_uuid