Veritas NetBackup™ 8.0 for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- 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
- Restoring individual 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 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
- Appendix E. SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines
About the Post vCenter events option (VMware Advanced Attributes)
The VMware - Advanced Attributes dialog of a NetBackup policy. (On the VMware tab of the policy, click .)
option is available on thePost vCenter events enables NetBackup to send backup related events to the vCenter server.
Note:
To post events to vCenter, NetBackup must perform the backup through a vCenter server. If NetBackup accesses the ESX server directly, the backup information cannot be displayed in vSphere Client.
Note:
You must set the required permissions in vCenter:
Note:
If a vSphere administrator created an attribute named NB_LAST_BACKUP of type Global, NetBackup cannot post backup events to that attribute. You must remove the NB_LAST_BACKUP attribute from vSphere. Make sure that Post vCenter events is set to All Events or Error Events. At the next backup, NetBackup creates a NB_LAST_BACKUP attribute of type Virtual Machine and posts events to that attribute.
Post vCenter events also records the date and time of the last successful backup of the virtual machine:
The date and time appear in vSphere Client on the Summary tab as a custom attribute under Annotations. The attribute is labeled NB_LAST_BACKUP.
The date and time appear in vSphere Web Client on the Virtual Machines display.
The events can also be viewed with the NetBackup vCenter plug-ins:
The events appear in vSphere Client under Home > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters. Select a vSphere object and click .
The events appear in vSphere Web Client under Hosts and Clusters > Monitor. Select a vSphere object and click .
For instructions on installing and using the NetBackup plug-ins, see the following guides:
NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vCenter Guide
NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide