NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.3)
  1. Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the VMware administrator
  2. Managing VMware servers
    1.  
      Add VMware servers
    2.  
      Validate and update VMware server credentials
    3.  
      Browse VMware servers
    4.  
      Remove VMware servers
    5.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    6.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    7.  
      Add a VMware access host
    8.  
      Remove a VMware access host
    9.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      About VMware discovery
    11.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    12.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  3. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Customize protection settings for a VMware asset
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  4. Malware scan
    1.  
      Assets by workload type
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant access
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    3.  
      Create an instant access VM
    4.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    5.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    6. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
    7.  
      VM malware scan
  6. Instant rollback
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant rollback
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant rollback feature
    3.  
      Instant rollback from a VM backup image
  7. Continuous data protection
    1.  
      CDP terminology
    2.  
      CDP architecture
    3.  
      About continuous data protection
    4.  
      Prerequisites
    5.  
      Capacity-based licensing for CDP
    6.  
      Steps to configure CDP
    7.  
      Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    9.  
      Sizing considerations
    10.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    11.  
      Controlling full sync
    12.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    13.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    14.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    15.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    16.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. VM recovery
    1. Recover a VM
      1.  
        Storage Policy
      2.  
        Recovery options
      3.  
        Advanced recovery options
      4.  
        Advanced recovery options: Format of restored virtual disks
      5.  
        Advanced recovery options: Transport mode
    2.  
      Recover VMware Cloud Director virtual machines
  9. VMware agentless restore
    1.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    2.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    3. Provide access to a credential for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM
      1.  
        Add a credential for a VMware guest VM
      2.  
        Create a custom role for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM, with a credential
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  10. Individual file and folder restore
    1.  
      About individual file restore
    2.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of individual file and folder restore
    3.  
      Recover individual files and folders
  11. Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
    1.  
      About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
    2.  
      Deployment and architecture
    3.  
      Features and applications supported
    4.  
      Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
    5.  
      Operations supported with hardware snapshot
    6.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
    7.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
    8.  
      Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
    9.  
      Notes and limitations
    10.  
      Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
  12. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using CDP

  • CDP for VMware exclusively supports accelerator-based backup. So, CDP needs accelerator-compliant storage units based on MSDP or OST-based storage.

  • CDP uses file system as staging area on CDP gateway. See the Software compatibility list for the supported file systems.

  • The media server that is associated with MSDP should have NetBackup version 9.1 or higher.

  • Capacity based and traditional license for enabling the feature.

  • The port 33056 on the CDP gateway must be open for ESXi server to communicate to CDP gateway.

  • VMware server credentials need privileges for NetBackup to start, stop, restart, and refresh the Common Information Model (CIM) service on the ESXi host.

  • You can configure a CDP gateway on RHEL-based NetBackup media server platform.

  • Create a VMware storage policy for replication using the VAIO component. Attach the storage policy to each disk of the VMs that you want to protect using CDP. For details, see Veritas Support knowledge base article on How to create vtstap storage policy in VMware vCenter.

Veritas IO filter for VAIO requirement

You can download and deploy the VAIO drivers package, version 4.0.0, to use with your CDP deployment. Refer to the Software compatibility list for the latest version and information on how to download it.

You must install the vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) on the vCenter cluster before configuring protection in NetBackup. Note that you do not need to deploy VIB on vCenter for restore purpose. See Veritas Support knowledge base article on Deploying an IO Filter solution to a cluster using VMware MOB.

Storage Policy requirements

Before you can deploy CDP, you need to create a VM storage policy. The storage policy must have a component chosen as "Replication" and provider as "vtstap". This policy must be attached to each disk of VM to be protected. Otherwise backup jobs fail. For details, see Veritas Support knowledge base article on How to create vtstap storage policy in VMware vCenter

Note:

Detaching the storage policy results in loss of protection for the VM. If you detach the Veritas IO filter storage policy from a VM, IO tapping for the VM is stopped, so the data from this VM does not get saved in the CDP gateway. Hence, the consequent backup jobs remain blank backup jobs, even after all the data from the CDP staging area is moved to the backup storage. So, we recommend removing protection of the VM(s) from NetBackup protection plan once you detach the vtstap policy from the VM(s).