How to remove VM-level backup policy and return to inherited datastore policy?

[koal]

I'm a Simplivity newbie and am working on our backup policies.  I have applied a certain policy to a set of VMs specifically at the VM level because I needed them to be different than the default policy that's applied at the Datastore.

Since then, I've moved them to a different datastore with a new default datstore-level backup policy.  They are, as expected, retaining the more specific policy that was previously applied to them at the VM object level.  Is it possible for me to remove this more specific policy application so that they return to inherting the policy from the datastore level?

To be clear, I'm not looking to delete the policy altogether, just how it's being applied to the VM.

[gustenar]

Hello @koal ,

Thank you for using HPE Simplivity Forum. 

What procedure did you use to move the VM to the new datastore? I tested this using the "Move Virtual Machine" option in the Simplivity menu, and successfully got the VM to inherit the backup policy from the datastore when it moved. The VM must be shutdown though. 

[koal]

I am using a regular vSphere storage migration because I need to do a live migration of the machine.  Using the non-Simplivity migration, if a VM did not have a backup policy applied at the VM-level, it will inherit the default storage-level backup policy when it's moved.  The issue was only popping up if the policy was applied at the VM-level originally.

After testing though, it looks like using the Simplivity move will force the policy to the destination datastores default backup policy regardless of how the policy was originally applied to the VM.

I suppose that means, in this particular scenario, I'll just have to keep that in mind when using the standard non-Simplivity move.