Exclude volumes from the protection plan

There are two options that are provided in CSM to exclude data volumes from a protection plan:

• In the Protection Plans page, for a new or existing protection plan for VM resources, under the Additional Configuration section, under Data Exclusion, select Exclude data volumes.
• Exclude individual data volumes from the VM snapshots by tagging them with the key pair, csmSkipSnapshot tag name, and true tag value. For more information about tags, see Using tags for a tag based protection plan.

NOTE: If you exclude volumes from Linux VMs, protection and recovery of the Linux VMs might fail. To avoid the issue, use the no fail settings in the /etc/fstab files. This causes the Linux VM boot sequence to ignore a failure in finding the volume. For example, UUID=123456-1234-1234-1234-123456789av /mnt/vol1 xfs defaults, nofail 0 2. For more information, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab.