Creating a VM Group for Proxmox

To specify a set of Proxmox VMs to back up or restore, create a VM group.

You can add content to the VM group by using rules that auto-discover content, by selecting specific VMs, and by other ways. When you first create the VM group, you can add a cluster that is relatively small, and then later you can update the VM group by adding more content.

Procedure

From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtual machines.

The Overview page appears.
In the upper-right area of the page, click Add VM group.

The Select Hypervisor page of the Add VM Group configuration wizard appears.
From the Hypervisor list, select the hypervisor to create a VM group for.
Click Next.

The Plan page of the Add VM Group configuration wizard appears.
From the Plan list, select the backup plan for the VM group.
Click Next.

The Add VM Group page of the Add VM Group configuration wizard appears.
In Name, enter a descriptive name for the VM group.
To create rules that auto-discover and select VMs to back up, do the following:
1. Click Add, and then select Rules.
  
  The Add rule dialog box appears.
2. From the list, select the type of rule to create, and then specify the rule:
  - Browse: Select the VMs or storages. (Selecting this option changes the Add rule dialog box to the Add content dialog box.)
  - Node: Select a node with VMs that you want to include in the backup.
  - Power state: Select VMs based on a power status of On, Off, or Other. (Other includes statuses such as Suspended).
  - Storage: Select storage to backup all the associated VMs.
  - Virtual machine: Select the VMs that you want to include in the backup.
  - Virtual machine name or pattern: Select VMs based on their names. For example, to select VMs that have a name that includes "east", enter Virtual machine name or pattern | Contains | east.
3. Click Save.
To select VMs in other ways, do the following:
1. Click Add, and then select Content.
  
  The Add content dialog box appears.
2. From the Browse and select VMs list, select one of the following:
  - Server View: Content under this view is shown as follows:
    - First level: This level displays all the nodes in your Proxmox cluster.
    - Second level: This level displays all the VMs and storage(s) associated with the selected node.
  - Folder View: Content under this view is shown as follows:
    - First level: This level displays the types of resources such as Nodes, VMs, SDN and Storage in your Proxmox cluster.
    - Second level: This level displays list of resources. For example, if you expand Nodes, the list of nodes in your Proxmox cluster are displayed.
  - Storage View: Content under this view is shown as follows:
    - First level: This level displays all the nodes in your Proxmox cluster.
    - Second level: This level displays all the storage(s) associated with the selected node.
    - Third level: This level displays all the VMs associated with the selected storage.
  - Pool View: This view displays VMs from all the nodes in your Proxmox cluster.
  - Tag View: Content under this view is shown as follows:
    - First level: This level displays all the tags in your Proxmox cluster.
    - Second level: This level displays all the VMs associated with the selected tag.
3. Select the VMs to add to the VM group.
4. Click Save.
To see a list of the VMs that are selected for backup based on your current selections or to run a backup test to verify that your backup configuration is successful, click Preview.

The Preview page appears. This page displays list of VMs that will be backed up.
Click Submit.