vCenter update node certificate, B&R thinks it's a new VM

[marcofabbri]

Good evening all,

got a question for you, hopefully the last one before Christmas, for an “issue” I’ve got with Veeam.

B&R has a job that backups a list of vms, and that’s all good.

Then I add a vCenter in the structure, and vCenter updates all nodes’ certificate.

Ok.

At this point, B&R Console needs a refresh and it’ll see all vms as new ones.

Perfect, but.

Next backup Veeam will save them as full backup, creating a duplicate of the vm in the backup file.

Is there any way to avoid it?

[Mildur]

As already told in the community board, A vcenter does not share the ID with esxi host.
If you use now a vcenter to create the backups instead of the esxi host, the vms will have a new MoRef ID and a fullbackup is necessary.
You can try this tool, but I‘m not sure if it works for esxi to vcenter migration scenario:

https://www.veeam.com/kb2136

[marcofabbri]

@Mildur you was faster than my CTRL+C CTRL+V

[Mildur]

Of course