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What is the threshold for vmware agents to handoff VMs backup jobs to the next agent?

What is the logic behind it?

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Hi,

The VMs are bind at first to the agent (appliance or Windows Agent) running on the same host as the backed up VM, the 2nd priority is given to agent on another host in the same VMware cluster and the 3rd priority to any other agents.

This priority may be overridden if there are more than 100 (this threshold value can be adjusted in case you run local AMS) VMs managed by one agent - in this case all new VMs from this host may be bind to agent running on another host (if there are no more "local" agents). 

In case there are 2 or more agents running on the same ESXi host, the VMs are distributed between them evenly. For example from 30 VMs running on the same host there will be 10 VMs bind to each of 3 agents.

Thank you.