Note the following regarding data aging and retention for Virtual Server Agent (VSA) for VMware:
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Once all child VM jobs for a given parent are aged, the parent job will be aged unless the user manually retains the parent job.
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If virtual machines are backed up using a storage policy with spool copy settings (no retention), you must run data aging after creating a backup copy. If you do not run a data aging job after creating a backup copy, browse and restore operations fail when they try to access the default copy of backup data.
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After a VM client is de-configured, the VM client is retained for another 30 days and then deleted.
If Commvault packages are installed on a VM, the VM client is not marked for de-configuration after the VM is deleted from the vCenter. You can deconfigure the VM client from the CommCell Console to release licenses.
If a VM is configured as a VMware virtualization client, you cannot delete the VM or the VM client. You can de-configure the Virtual Server instance under the virtualization client, which also de-configures the associated VMware instance.