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)
Search Virtual Machines for Restore dialog
Use this screen to search for virtual machines by name or other identifier, or to use other filter criteria.
Enter Display Name, Host Name, IP Address, UUID, DNS Name or vApp to search for:
Enter the name or number of the virtual machine to search for and click Search results dialog.
. Any matching virtual machines appear in theAdvanced Search:
Click to create a rule-based search query. See Table: Advanced Search: filter parameters.
Table: Advanced Search: filter parameters
Search item | Description |
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Available when you click the plus sign to add a rule to the search. AND: Limits or restricts the scope of the search. OR: Opens the search to an additional possibility, expanding the scope of the search. | |
Select a parameter on which to search. You can type the first character of the parameter to select it. | |
Select an operator. You can type the first character of the operator to select it. The available operators depend on the parameter that was selected. | |
Enter a value for the parameter. The search looks for the virtual machines that match the value. | |
Choose a date and time. | |
Refine or expand the search (add another rule). | |
Remove the rule from the search. | |
Basic Search | Search by display name, host name, IP address, UUID, DNS name, or vApp. |
Next | Run the search. The matching virtual machines appear in the Search results dialog. |
Note the following about the search behavior:
Although VMware allows up to 128 characters for an object name, the NetBackup database restricts searches to the first 126 characters only.
To search for a vSphere vApp by name without specifying its path: Use the search operator
or (do not use ). To use , you must specify the entire path of the vApp.To search by IP address: If the virtual machine has two or more IP addresses (such as virtual addresses), use
as the search operator instead of .You must include a leading forward slash (/) when searching for a data center, VM folder, or resource pool. If you use the
operator, a leading slash is not required.Regarding wildcards:
*
and?
are not supported for Greater, GreaterEqual, Less, and LessEqual operators. The*
and?
characters are treated as literals, not wildcards.For the rest of the operators,
*
matches everything, and?
matches any single character.Note: SQL has a limitation that wildcards
*
and?
(SQL equivalents are % and _) do not match null values. If a virtual machine does not have an IP address, the query "IPAddress Equal *" does not find the virtual machine.