VMware Intelligent Policy are failing with "discovery document error (1001)" due to duplicate VM names

Problem

VMware Intelligent Policy are failing with "discovery document error (1001)" due to duplicate VM names in a VMware environment.  Base on the VM name selection used in the backup policy, NetBackup does not support duplicate VM names (hostname, display).

Error Message

Detailed status:

4/20/2012 9:29:16 AM - Error nbpem(pid=5720) Invalid discovery document D:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\xmlfile.33860
Status 1001

 

nbpem:
Named groups 1 parameters do not match, from 192.168.99.100 to 192.168.99.100 (../DiscoveredData.cpp:987),21:DiscoveredItem::merge,1

Cause

As per the VMWare Admin Guide virtual machine host names or display names must be unique within a master server's policies. To back up the two virtual machines named VM1, do one of the following:

■ Change their VMware names so they are unique in the master server's policies.

■ Configure the policies to identify the virtual machines by their UUIDs. (Note that UUIDs are always unique.)

Solution

Remove the duplicate VM names from the NetBackup Domain.