EMC Avamar 6.1 User Manual page 61

Virtual machine and proxy client relationships within vCenter groups
Consider the following simplified example configuration:
Virtual machines VM-1 and VM-2 store their data in DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2,
respectively.
Within Avamar Administrator, proxies have been assigned to protect vCenter datastores as
follows:
PROXY-1 has been assigned to DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2
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PROXY-2 has been assigned to DATASTORE-2
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PROXY-3 has been assigned to DATASTORE-3
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Datastore assignments are made at the proxy client level in the Edit Client dialog box.
A vCenter is group (GROUP-1) is created, to which virtual machine clients VM-1 and VM-2
are added.
In order to protect these Virtual machines, proxy clients must also be added to the vCenter
group as follows:
PROXY-1, by way of its assignment to both DATASTORE-1 and DATASTORE-2, can
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protect both VM-1 and VM-2 virtual machine clients.
PROXY-2, because it is only assigned to DATASTORE-2, is optional as long as Proxy-1
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exists in the vCenter group.
PROXY-3, because it is only assigned to DATASTORE-3, cannot protect either VM-1 or
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VM-2.
Every vCenter group must include enough proxies to support all the datastores assigned to
every client. Otherwise, when a backup is initiated and a proxy cannot be located to
perform the backup, the backup will fail with an Activity monitor status of "no proxy."
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