![]() Backup Exec among others, has an option to not back up 'unpowered' VM's which works in the same way. Ultimately, if one owns the VM's in question, and assuming no interoperability problems in having an additional agent service running on the VM it seems like there is no measurable downside. ![]() I also get the advantage of being able to V2P easily which is seldom but sometimes required. I don't actually see an advantage to doing it in the recommended way (all VM's on all protected hosts) unless one were running massive VM farms and needed to back up all VM's no matter their state. Fiddling around with excluding VM's on individual hosts is surely powers of magnitude more time consuming than simply installing the managed agent onto a VM directly and from that point not caring about which host is running it. VM's found consume licenses unless specifically excluded Why would anyone want to do it that way? Unless I'm missing something really basic:
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