VMware custom annotations may not be visible in the VMware Intelligent Policy fields until 24 hours after creation

Problem

VMware custom annotations may not be visible in the VMware Intelligent Policy fields until 24 hours after creation due to a default 24 hour cache limit for certain VMware information.

Cause

The cache for certain VMs data are not updated on a frequent rotation because this information usually does not change.  With that in mind, querying the entire vSphere environment for these changes only occurs every 24 hours.

Solution

Veritas recommends leaving the default cache limit of 24 hours as changing the value can increase the load on the vSphere environment and VMware Access Host.

Create a DWORD registry: 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config\BACKUP\xmlCacheLimit 
The value is in seconds.

For Linux add to the /usr/openv/netbackup/virtualization.conf the following value under the [BACKUP] field. 
"xmlCacheLimit"=dword:00000000 

The above value should be in HEX, for example if you wanted 60 minutes/3600 seconds. Then you have to enter 3600 in hex format. 
"xmlCacheLimit"=dword:E10