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)
About VMware raw device mapping (RDM)
This topic applies to NetBackup for VMware.
VMware raw device mapping mode (RDM) allows a virtual machine to directly access physical disks. With raw device mapping, a VMware virtual machine can use large storage devices such as disk arrays. Access to the data on an RDM disk is faster than to a fully virtualized disk (vmdk file). An RDM disk can be locally attached to the ESX server or configured on a Fibre Channel SAN.
NetBackup supports the disk arrays that are configured on a virtual machine as RDMs.
Note:
NetBackup cannot back up the RDM by means of a VMware backup host.
For notes and restrictions on NetBackup support for VMware RDM, see the following Veritas tech note:
Support for NetBackup in virtual environments
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000006177