Updating VM details on vCenters with Commvault Backup details

Hi,

In order to answer the question , we need to determine the approach/method you are using to backup the Agents in the vm . Are you using Agent based method i.e you have installed the DB agent manually in the  VM ? Or are you using the App-aware option for the VM backup ? 

You may explore the following report which will provide you with the details specific to the application data protected for the VM’s and the Job id information as well 

Advanced VMs in the License Summary Report

Thanks & Regards

Hi ​@up114743 

AFAIK this isn’t possible to do out the box…… but would you really do this? Like having hundreds or thousands of virtual DB servers doing log backups every 15m and then trying to do an update of custom attributes within vCenter do not seem like a good idea…. more like a DoS attack on the vCenter endpoint :-)

/RubeckDK   

Sorry my question was not worded very well. So when taking a VM Image backups the VM’s the VM custom attributes get updated with Backup Date, Job no etc . I want to see if there is a way that we can update the attributes of VM’s that get backed up via a agent based backup (CV software installed locally) with last backup date, job no. I’m thinking via PowerShell maybe

I was thinking Daily Full backups only rather than any TX log backups but you make a good point.

Not possible out of the box, but certainly possible combining a post-script + powercli

post-scripts include environment variables like the Job ID that you can pipe into a simple powercli script. Any sort of AI tool should be able to get you 90%+ of the way ;)