Virtual Machine Information In Avamar Administrator; Select Virtual Machine Dialog Box Functions - EMC Avamar 6.1 User Manual

For each virtual machine, the following information is shown:
Table 11 Virtual machine information in Avamar Administrator
Column Description
Name Virtual machine name.
Guest OS Virtual machine operating system.
Server ESX Server or cluster hostname.
Location Folder location.
Template Whether or not the virtual machine is a template.
Powered On Whether or not the virtual machine is currently powered on.
Change Block Whether or not changed block tracking is turned on for this virtual machine.
The options at the top of the Select Virtual Machine dialog box perform the following
functions:
Table 12 Select Virtual Machine dialog box functions
Option
vSphere View - Virtual machines and
template views
vSphere View - Hosts and Clusters
view
Show sub-domain virtual machines
Virtual Machine Properties - Enable
changed block tracking
6. Select one or more virtual machines.
7. To enable changed block tracking, select Enable changed block tracking.
Turning on changed block tracking will not take effect until any of the following actions
occur: power on, resume after suspend, migrate, snapshot create, delete, or revert.
8. Click OK.
9. Confirm the number of virtual machines selected.
10. Click OK.
Description
The view is representative of vCenter's Virtual Machines
and Template views.
The view is representative of vCenter's Hosts and Clusters
view.
Displays all virtual machines in the vCenter.
If a virtual machine is already being protected with guest
backup, it is shown as disabled in this view.
If selected, the changed block tracking is enabled.
Note: If changed block tracking is not enabled, the virtual
machine image must be fully processed for each backup,
which might result in unacceptably long backup windows,
and excessive back-end storage read/write activity.
This feature is enabled by default. EMC strongly
recommends that you leave this feature enabled for all
virtual machines you will be protecting with Avamar
VMware image backup.
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