NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide
- Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
- Managing VMware servers
- Add VMware servers
- Validate and update VMware server credentials
- Browse VMware servers
- Remove VMware servers
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Remove an intelligent VM group
- Add a VMware access host
- Remove a VMware access host
- Change resource limits for VMware resource types
- About VMware discovery
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
- Discover VMware server assets manually
- Protecting VMs
- Malware scan
- Instant access
- Instant rollback
- Continuous data protection
- CDP terminology
- CDP architecture
- About continuous data protection
- Prerequisites
- Capacity-based licensing for CDP
- Steps to configure CDP
- Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
- Defining the CDP gateway
- Sizing considerations
- Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
- Controlling full sync
- Monitoring CDP jobs
- Using accelerators with CDP
- Recovering CDP protected VMs
- Some limitations of CDP
- Troubleshooting for CDP
- VM recovery
- VMware agentless restore
- Individual file and folder restore
- Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
- About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
- Deployment and architecture
- Features and applications supported
- Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
- Operations supported with hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
- Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
- Notes and limitations
- Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
- Troubleshooting VMware operations
About continuous data protection
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a smart way to capture fast copies of backups for the VMware VMs, without stunning the VMs. Using CDP, you can rapidly make recent copies of backups and use NetBackup to retain and restore the backups as required.
Here are some salient features of CDP:
Completely web UI-based protection and recovery of VMware VMs.
Versatile API-based protection.
You can use traditional VADP-based backups along with CDP for VMware. The backup images are independent of each other, and they are treated separately for incremental backup or recovery purpose.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): You can use a Red Hat Linux-based NetBackup media server as a CDP gateway.
Support for ESXi and various datastore types. Refer to the Software compatibility list for the latest information.
Accelerator-based backup. Support for accelerator enabled storage like MSDP and OST.
Support for Instant access. You can start the VMs from MSDP storage.
Agentless single file restore from MSDP.
RBAC support for entire protection and restore workflow.
Traditional and capacity-based licensing.
CDP uses Veritas IO filter that is fully compatible with the Veritas Resiliency Platform.