Jobs and Job Control for VM-Centric Operations

After initial backups for a VMware virtualization client that has VM-centric operations enabled, you can perform backups for a backup set, for a subclient, or for an individual VM client.

For virtualization clients that are configured for VM-centric operations, when you request a backup for a backup set or subclient, the resulting job appears in the Job Controller with "VM Admin" as the job type, and a separate child job runs for each VM in a subclient.

• If one or more child jobs fail, the parent job status is Completed with Errors.

• If all child jobs fail, the parent job status is Failed.

By default, child jobs do not appear in the Job Controller.

A VM Admin job is used to coordinate the individual operations for each VM in the subclient, but the actual backup data is associated with each child job rather than the VM Admin job. VM Admin (synthetic full) jobs do not appear in the Job Controller, and you cannot create alerts based on them. These jobs are created only to report job status, and they appear only in the job history and some reports.

If a VM is already being backed up as part of a parent job and a backup is requested for the same VM, you can configure the software to queue the new job until the previous job completes. In the CommCell Console Control Panel > Job Management > General tab, select Queue jobs if other conflicting jobs are active.

If a backup is completed for some VMs as part of a parent job, and a scheduled backup begins for VMs that are already completed in the parent job, the new jobs run in parallel with the previously running parent job.

If you view jobs for a storage policy or for a storage policy copy, only child jobs appear. (For backups that were performed prior to 11.20, both parent and child jobs appear.)

The following job types are shown for subclients and for each individual VM:

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Queuing Jobs