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How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

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Hello,

I would like to set the VSS credentials of a backup job. And more specifically add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere tags as criteria, without these tags being an object of the backup job (the job object is only a VMs folder).

How to do ?

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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

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Hu jguillot,

I don't think this is possible in the UI. (at least not if I understand the situation correctly). You have created one specific job, and that job points to a VM folder with X amount of VM's in. Some VMs will have different credentials for in-guest processing then others. Is that correct?


It might be possible to use PowerShell for this. If you can enumerate the VM's that are in a specific job, and then get the VMware tag for each VM and modify the guest credentials per VM. But in all honesty, never done this myself.
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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

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Hi,

It's correct !

I already try to enumerate the VMs of a job but they become objects of the job whereas I just want to add these VMs in the guest processing credentials while just getting my VMs folder in the object of the job.

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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

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Unfortunately, you cannot do that in PowerShell. Thanks!
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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

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Hi There,

It is possible using the GUI. But is it still not possible using powershell or maybee .net ?

I have 40 backup jobs i would to add 1 credential to
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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

Post by oleg.feoktistov »

Hi Henrik,

It's not available in neither powershell, nor .net since primary backup / backup copy job management is built a bit differently here.
Most of the options for, say, a backup job, you amend inside job options properties and then update them on job object directly rather than passing it all through different sets of cmdlet parameters. It leads to the necessity of passing explicit ids when it comes to specific entities or strings/integers when it comes to other adjustments.
So, the way to set one credential for all the job includes could be:

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$jobs = Get-VBRJob
$creds = Get-VBRCredentials -Name 'Administrator'
foreach ($job in $jobs) {
  $objects = Get-VBRJobObject -Job $job
  foreach ($object in $objects) {
    $vssOptions = Get-VBRJobObjectVssOptions -ObjectInJob $object
    $vssOptions.WinCredsId = $creds.Id
    Set-VBRJobObjectVssOptions -Object $object -Options $vssOptions
   } 
}
Thanks,
Oleg
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Post by Henrik.Grevelund »

Hi Oleg,

Thank you for the example. It will help a little next time.
Now I only have to add the vmware tag in the guest OS credentials window, and then use your script to set the user credentials.
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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

Post by oleg.feoktistov »

Hi Henrik,

Yes, it works this way since what you see in the UI (choosing credentials by Vmware tags, for instance) is literally filtering views. While in API like PS or REST you need to do the filtering beforehand as a separate step and then pass explicit values to flat objects/models.

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Re: How to add VSS Guest Credentials by vSphere Tags

Post by Henrik.Grevelund »

Hi Oleg,

Will it be possible to add VMware tags in version 11 ?
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Not planned for v11. Thanks!
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