Step 3. Select VMs to Replicate

At the Machines step of the wizard, add workloads that you want to replicate and configure their processing order.

Selecting Workloads to Replicate

Select workloads or protection groups that you want to replicate:

  1. Click Add.
  2. In the Add Object window, select the necessary VMs or VM containers and click Add.

If you select VM containers (hosts, clusters, folders, resource pools, VirtualApps or datastores) and add new VMs to this container in future, Veeam Backup & Replication will update CDP policy settings automatically to include these VMs.

Note

Even if you add VM containers to a CDP policy, only VMs are replicated. VM templates, VM logs, folders and so on are not replicated.

You can use the toolbar at the top right corner of the window to switch between views. Depending on the view you select, some objects may not be available. For example, if you select Tags combination view, no resource pools, hosts or clusters will be displayed in the tree. In the Tags combination view, you can select multiple tags and only those VMs that have all the selected tags will be processed by the policy.

Important

Consider the following:

  • You can replicate only VMs that are turned on, the turned off VMs will be skipped from processing.
  • You cannot add to a CDP policy VMs that were already added to other CDP policies created on the same backup server.

To quickly find the necessary VMs, you can use the search field at the bottom of the Add Object window. If you want to switch between types of VMs you want to search through, use the button to the left of the search field.

Step 3. Select VMs to Replicate

Specify VM Processing Order

At the Virtual Machines step of the wizard, click Up and Down to change the processing order. VMs at the top of the list have a higher priority and will be processed first.

Note

Consider the following:

  • VMs inside a VM container are processed at random. To ensure that VMs are processed in the defined order, you must add them as standalone VMs, not as a part of containers.
  • The processing order may differ from the order that you have defined. For example, if resources of a VM that is higher in the priority are not available, and resources of a VM that is lower in the priority are available, Veeam Backup & Replication will process the VM with the lower priority first.

Step 3. Select VMs to Replicate

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