Disable guest processing for some VMs

[adispy]

Hello,
I have a backup job in which I included the entire ESXi, so every VM created or deleted from this host will be included or taken out of the backup automatically. The problem I am having is that for some of the VMs I don't need the Guest Processing option. In the Application aware processing the entire ESXi is included and I cannot take it out from the Applications list. I'm guessing its there because I have added the entire host for backup.
I have disabled application aware for the ESXi host and manually added only the VMs I need, but it is not working. The ones excluded still appear in the backup job report with credentials warning, which means the backup job still tries to process the guest OS of these.

Is there a way to disable Guest Processing for some of the VMs in the backup job?

[marcofabbri]

Can't you edit this option?
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

[Andreas Neufert]

Guest processing can be always applied granlular.
I would set for the majority of the VMs the processing. In your case with guest processing of the default processing.
Then you can go to the Guest Processing Detailed area and add specific VMs there as well and disable guest processing.

The "Test" button might not reflect this, but the job will honor it.

"Guest Processing" tab - [x] Enable Application-aware processing
then click on "Applications..."
Next screen you will see the ESXi host that you have selected in the "Virtual Machines" tab of the job.
Click "Add..." and browse to the VM that you want to exclude.
After adding the VM you can click on the VM and select "Edit..." - General - "Disable application processing"

[matteu]

Hello,

Yes, you can choose to enable guest application by default and disable for the other VMs or Disable by defaut and enable it for other VMs.
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