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)
Automatic virtual machine selection: Task overview
This topic is a high-level overview of how to set up a NetBackup policy for automatic selection of VMware virtual machines. Follow the links in the table for more details.
Table: Automatic selection of virtual machines: overview of the tasks
Steps to configure automatic selection | Description and notes |
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Configure a VMware policy | Use the policy Attributes tab. |
Set rules for virtual machine selection in the policy Query Builder | On the policy Clients tab, click . Choose a host for virtual machine selection (default is the VMware backup host). To add rules, use the Query Builder drop-down fields. |
Test the rules | Click Clients tab. Virtual machines are labeled as included or excluded, based on the rules. in the Query Builder on theNote: The list of virtual machines is not saved in the Clients tab. Note: The query rules are also displayed in the Backup Selections tab. The backup selections are pre-set to All_LOCAL_DRIVES (not displayed). As an alternative, you can use the nbdiscover command to test a query. Refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide. |
Execute a backup | When the policy executes, NetBackup consults the rules in the Query Builder, creates a list of virtual machines, and backs them up. |
Check the backup | To see which virtual machines were backed up, use the Activity Monitor, or run a Virtual Client Summary report in OpsCenter. See Using the Activity Monitor to monitor virtual machine backups. |