Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- Exclude Disks tab
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using Backup, Archive, and Restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using NetBackup commands
- Restoring individual VMware virtual machine files
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
NetBackup for VMware prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply to NetBackup for VMware:
The VMware components including ESX servers and virtual machines must be set up before you configure NetBackup.
The NetBackup Java Runtime Environment (JRE) must be installed on the discovery host and the recovery host. Install the NetBackup Remote Administration Console to install NetBackup Java.
The VMware backup host must run on Windows or Linux. The supported hardware types are the same as for any NetBackup client. For the supported platforms for the backup host, see the NetBackup Enterprise Server and Server OS Software Compatibility List available from the following location:
To use the hotadd transfer type for backup or restore, the VMware backup or restore host is installed in a virtual machine.
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