Proxy affinity to VMware datastore - specifically vSAN?

[cstps]

Hi all,

I understand that proxy affinity is tied to a repository - however, I'm struggling to work out, on a geographically distributed network structure (that's all on the same subnet!), how to force a proxy to only interact with VMs local to it.

Just for clarity - I have two sites, which as mentioned, share the same subnet. Both are represented by separate clusters under the same vCenter. Both clusters feature only a single vSAN datastore.

I'm seeing backup proxies at site A being used to connect to disks at site B. If I could restrict the proxies to a specific datastore, this would solve the issue. There is an option to nominate "Connected datastores" in the proxy options, however the vSAN datastore isn't shown here.

Is there a way around this that anyone can suggest?

Thanks in advance!

[foggy]

Hi Chris, adding VMs to jobs via some containers (based on the actual location of their disks) or vSphere tags and restricting the proxies pool for the particular job should help in this case.