Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Validating VMware virtualization server certificates in NetBackup
- 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)
Further assistance with NetBackup for VMware
Table: Sources of information on NetBackup for VMware
Topic | Source |
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General documentation | VMware Inc. provides an extensive set of manuals on VMware products. |
Performance benchmark testing | Symantec NetBackup, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere Joint Backup Performance Benchmark whitepaper |
Snapshot Client configuration | Refer to the NetBackup Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide. The guide contains installation and configuration instructions on Snapshot Client. |
List of supported combinations of platforms and snapshot methods | Refer to the NetBackup Snapshot Client Compatibility List available from the following location: |
Support information on NetBackup for VMware | Refer to the following Veritas documents for updates on NetBackup support for VMware:
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