1. A method to identify virtual machine backup policies in a data management system, the method comprising: automatically requesting with one or more computer processors a first list of virtual machines in a data management system from virtual machine management software; receiving the first list of the virtual machines in the data management system in response to the request; automatically retrieving with one or more computer processors a second list of virtual machines in the data management system from a storage manager associated with the data management system, each virtual machine on the second list associated with a backup policy; automatically comparing with one or more computer processors the first list with the second list; and automatically identifying with one or more computer processors the virtual machines not associated with a backup policy based at least in part on the comparison.