Veritas NetBackup™ 8.0 for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- About NetBackup for VMware
- Updates to this guide for NetBackup 8.0
- About the virtual machine backups that include database data
- About the NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host
- NetBackup for VMware components
- Appliance as backup host: component overview
- Media servers as backup or discovery hosts
- Overview of the VMware backup process
- NetBackup for VMware license requirement
- NetBackup for VMware terminology
- Select Client wizard panel
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- NetBackup for VMware prerequisites
- NetBackup for VMware: notes and restrictions
- Notes on VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols)
- NetBackup IPv6 parameter required for backups in VMware IPv6 environments
- NetBackup for VMware: notes on Linux virtual machines
- Notes on the NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host
- NetBackup for VMware support for SAN multi-pathing
- NetBackup for VMware support for fault tolerant VMs
- NetBackup character restrictions for virtual machine display names and other vSphere objects
- In the policy Query Builder, display names, resource pool names, and vApp names are case-sensitive
- Notes on the hotadd transport mode
- Notes and limitations for tag usage in VMware Intelligent Policy queries
- Notes and limitations for the backup and restore of VMware tag associations
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- Configuring a VMware policy from the Policy Wizard
- Configuring a VMware policy from the Policies utility
- Limit jobs per policy on the Attributes tab (for VMware)
- VMware backup options
- VMware backup host
- Optimizations options (VMware)
- Primary VM identifier options (VMware)
- Existing snapshot handling options (VMware)
- Transport modes options (VMware)
- Application protection options (VMware)
- VMware - Advanced Attributes dialog
- About the Post vCenter events option (VMware Advanced Attributes)
- About the Exclude disk options for Virtual disk selection
- Virtual disk selection options: an example to avoid
- Restoring data from the backups that excluded the boot disk or data disks
- Browse for VMware Virtual Machines
- Limiting the VMware servers that NetBackup searches when browsing for virtual machines
- Virtual machine host names and display names should be unique if VMs are selected manually in the policy
- Primary VM identifier option and manual selection of virtual machines
- About incremental backups of virtual machines
- Configuring incremental backups
- Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes in the virtual machine
- About older NetBackup policies and pre-7.x backup hosts
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- About automatic virtual machine selection for NetBackup for VMware
- Support and use of VMware tag associations
- The basics of a NetBackup query rule
- Important notes on automatic virtual machine selection
- NetBackup requirements for automatic virtual machine selection
- Automatic virtual machine selection: Task overview
- Options for selecting VMware virtual machines
- Configuring automatic virtual machine selection
- Editing an existing query in Basic Mode
- Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode
- AND vs. OR in queries
- Examples for the NetBackup Query Builder
- The IsSet operator in queries
- About selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies
- Order of operations in queries (precedence rules)
- Parentheses in compound queries
- Query rules for resource pools
- Query rules for datacenter folders (host folder)
- Query rules for duplicate names
- Query rules for tags
- Query Builder field reference
- Test Query screen for VMware
- Test Query: Failed virtual machines
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results
- Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on VM Name column in Test query results
- Refreshing the display of virtual environment changes in the Query Builder
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- About the NetBackup Accelerator for virtual machines
- Accelerator: full vs. incremental schedules
- How the NetBackup Accelerator works with virtual machines
- Accelerator notes and requirements for virtual machines
- Accelerator forced rescan for virtual machines (schedule attribute)
- Accelerator requires the OptimizedImage attribute
- Accelerator backups and the NetBackup catalog
- Accelerator messages in the backup job details log
- NetBackup logs for Accelerator with virtual machines
- About reporting the amount of Accelerator backup data that was transferred over the network
- Replacing the Accelerator image size with the network-transferred data in NetBackup command output
- Restore virtual machines
- Restore notes and restrictions
- Restore notes and restrictions on Linux
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Recovery Destination dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Recovery Options dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Select ESX server dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Select Folder dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Select Datastore or Datastore Cluster dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Storage Destination dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Network Connections and Other Recovery Options dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Perform Recovery dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- About VMware virtual machine disk restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks
- Determining the backup image ID from which to restore a VMware virtual machine disk
- Creating the VMware virtual machine disk restore file
- Modifying the virtual machine disk restore file
- Validating the virtual machine disk restore file
- Restoring the virtual machine disk or disks
- VMware virtual machine disk restore file
- About restore of individual files
- Restoring individual files
- How NetBackup handles VMware tag associations at restore
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- If the recovery host is not at the same NetBackup release level as the backup host
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- About Instant Recovery for VMware
- Task overview for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Performance recommendations for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Requirements for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Notes on Instant Recovery for VMware
- Restarting the Client for NFS service on a Windows restore host
- Instant Recovery options on the nbrestorevm command
- Restoring a virtual machine with Instant Recovery for VMware
- Restoring a virtual machine to a different location with Instant Recovery for VMware
- Restoring individual files with Instant Recovery for VMware while the current virtual machine is running
- Job types for Instant Recovery for VMware
- Reactivating a restored virtual machine with Instant Recovery for VMware
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- About NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Notes on creating a NetBackup policy for vCloud
- Notes on restoring virtual machines into vCloud Director
- Restoring virtual machines into vCloud Director
- Reducing the time required for VM discovery in a large vCloud environment
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Recovery Destination dialog box
- Recovery Options dialog box (vCloud Director)
- Recovery vApp Options for vCloud Director dialog box (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Options dialog box for vCloud Director
- Perform Recovery dialog box for vCloud Director
- Recovery Options dialog box for vCloud Director (restore to alternate location)
- Recovery vApp Options for vCloud Director dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Select a vApp dialog box
- Recovery Destination Options for vCloud Director dialog box (restore to alternate location)
- Virtual Machine Options (restore to alternate location)
- Network connections (restore to alternate location)
- Perform Recovery dialog box for vCloud Director (restore to alternate location)
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Notes on troubleshooting NetBackup for VMware
- Beware of unsupported backup host
- How to determine the ESX network that NetBackup used for the backup or restore
- NetBackup logging for VMware
- Configuring VxMS logging
- Format of the VxMS core.log and provider.log file names
- Configuring the VDDK logging level
- Preventing browsing delays caused by DNS problems
- Changing the browsing timeout for virtual machine discovery
- Changing timeout and logging values for vSphere
- Credentials for VMware server are not valid
- Snapshot error encountered (status code 156)
- The origin of the snapshot failure: NetBackup or VMware?
- Conflict between NetBackup and VMware Storage vMotion with vSphere 5.0 or later
- The restore fails when you restore individual files to a virtual machine that has NetBackup client software
- Backup or restore job hangs
- VMware SCSI requirement for application quiesce on Windows 2008 or later
- Mount point missing on a restored Windows virtual machine
- Mount points not available when restoring files from a Linux virtual machine
- Remove the Consolidate Helper snapshot
- Invalid client error when you restore files using NetBackup BAR interface installed on the virtual machine
- VMware virtual machine does not restart after restore
- NetBackup job fails due to update tasks on the VMware server
- The vSphere interface reports that virtual machine consolidation is needed
- The Enable file recovery from VM backup option does not work if a volume disk set contains a mixture of disk types
- Linux VMs and persistent device naming
- For a VMware virtual machine with Windows dynamic disks, a restore from incremental backup fails with a Windows restore host and the hotadd transport mode
- Simultaneous hotadd backups (from the same VMware backup host) fail with status 13
- Troubleshooting VMware tag usage
- Ensuring that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director
- Troubleshooting vmdk restore to existing VM
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Using the nbdiscover command to search the virtual environment
- Using the nbrestorevm command to restore virtual machines into vSphere
- Using the nbrestorevm command to restore virtual machines into vCloud Director
- Using the nbrestorevm command to restore virtual machine disks
- The nbrestorevm -R rename file for restoring virtual machines
- Logs for troubleshooting the nbrestorevm command
- Query format and examples for searching virtual machine backups
- Allowing other servers or clients to restore virtual machines
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About installing and configuring Network File System (NFS) for Granular Recovery Technology (GRT)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Disabling the Server for NFS (NetBackup for VMware)
- Disabling the Client for NFS on the media server (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients (NetBackup for VMware)
- Configuring a UNIX media server and Windows backup or restore host for Granular Recovery Technology (NetBackup for VMware)
- Configuring a different network port for NBFSD (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
- Appendix E. SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines
VMware policy: bpplinfo options and keywords
Table: bpplinfo options describes the options that are available on the bpplinfo command. These options are set to default values if not specified.
Table: bpplinfo options
Option | Values | Keyword label in policy GUI |
|---|---|---|
-ignore_client_direct | 0 enables client deduplication, 1 disables client deduplication | The Attributes tab > Disable client side deduplication |
-application_discovery | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | Clients tab > Select automatically through VMware Intelligent Policy query |
-discovery_lifetime | seconds | Clients tab > Reuse VM selection query results for |
-ASC_apps_attr | exchange, mssql, sharepoint truncatelogs=0 disabled, 1 enabled (for Exchange or SQL Server only) To enable Exchange file recovery: -ASC_apps_attr exchange: To enable Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint file recovery: -ASC_apps_attr exchange:,mssql:,sharepoint: To enable exchange recovery with truncate logs: -ASC_apps_attr exchange:;truncatelogs=1 To enable exchange without truncate logs and mssql with truncate logs: -ASC_apps_attr exchange:,mssql:;truncatelogs=1 To enable exchange with truncate logs and mssql without truncate logs (note the final colon): -ASC_apps_attr exchange:;truncatelogs=1,mssql: To enable both exchange and mssql with truncate logs: -ASC_apps_attr exchange:;truncatelogs=1,mssql:;truncatelogs=1 | Enables the file-level recovery of database data. VMware tab > Application Protection: Enable Exchange Recovery, Enable SQL Server Recovery, or Enable SharePoint Recovery |
-snapshot_method_args | keyword=value,keyword=value, ... |
Table: Keywords and values for -snapshot_method_args describes the keywords that must be included in -snapshot_method_args.
Table: Keywords and values for -snapshot_method_args
Keyword | Value | Name of keyword in policy GUI |
|---|---|---|
file_system_optimization= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | VMware tab > Exclude deleted blocks |
snapact= | 0 Continue backup 1 Abort if any snapshot(s) exist 2 Remove NetBackup snapshot(s) and continue backup 3 Abort if NetBackup snapshot(s) exist | VMware tab > Existing snapshot handling |
drive_selection= | 0 Include all disks, 1 Exclude boot disk, 2 Exclude data disks | VMware tab > Advanced > Virtual disk selection |
Virtual_machine_backup= | 1 disabled, 2 enabled | VMware tab > Enable file recovery from VM backup |
enable_vCloud= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | Clients tab > Enable vCloud Director integration (only available with automatic selection of client) |
multi_org= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | VMware tab > Advanced > Multiple organizations per policy |
disable_quiesce= | 0 virtual machine quiesce is enabled, 1 virtual machine quiesce is disabled | VMware tab > Advanced > Virtual machine quiesce |
nameuse= | 0 VM host name, 1 VM display name, 2 VM BIOS UUID, 3 VM DNS Name, 4 VM instance UUID | VMware tab > Primary VM identifier |
exclude_swap= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | VMware tab > Exclude swap and paging files |
skipnodisk= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | VMware tab > Advanced -> Ignore diskless VMs |
post_events= | 0 No Events, 1 All Events, 2 Error Events | VMware tab > Advanced > Post events to vCenter |
ignore_irvm= | 0 disabled, 1 enabled | VMware tab > Advanced > Ignore Instant Recovery VMs |
rLim= | 0 - 100 | VMware tab > Advanced > Snapshot retry |
rTO= | 0 - 1440 | VMware tab > Advanced > Snapshot timeout (minutes) |
rHz= | 0 - 3600 | VMware tab > Advanced > Snapshot creation interval (seconds) |
trantype= | san, hotadd, nbd, or nbdssl If more than one, separate each with a colon. Order of modes indicates priority. Example: trantype=nbd:hotadd This example selects these two modes and tries nbd first. | VMware tab > Transport modes |
serverlist= | VMware server names. Use a colon to separate the names. For example: serverlist=vc1.acme.com:vc2.acme.com To specify no server list, enter serverlist= | VMware tab > Advanced > VMware server list |
See bpplinclude options for modifying query rules in a VMware policy.