Primary VM identifier option and manual selection of virtual machines
This topic describes the issues you may encounter with the option when you manually select of virtual machines for a policy. If the policy selects virtual machines automatically, refer to the following topic:
See Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results.
When creating virtual machines, use the same name for both the host name and display name. If the Primary VM identifier is changed, the existing entries on the Clients tab still work. Otherwise, a change to the policy's value can affect backups. If you change this option, you may have to delete the virtual machine selections on the Clients tab and re-enter them. Then NetBackup may no longer be able to identify the virtual machines to back up.
For example, the host names in the Clients tab cannot be used and the virtual machines are not backed up in the following case:
If you change the Primary VM identifier from to , and
The display names of the virtual machines are different from the host names.
In this case, delete the host name entries on the Clients tab and browse the network to select the virtual machines by display name.