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 selecting virtual machines by means of multiple policies
This topic applies to policy configuration for NetBackup for VMware. You can use the Query Builder to enter rules for the automatic selection of VMware virtual machines for backup.
If your virtual environment has many virtual machines with inconsistent naming conventions, you may need multiple policies working in tandem. It may be difficult to create a single policy that automatically selects all the virtual machines that you want to back up.
For this situation, configure several policies such that each policy backs up a portion of the environment. One policy backs up a particular set or group of virtual machines, such as those that have host names. A second policy backs up a different group of virtual machines that were not backed up by the first policy, and so forth. When all the policies have run, all the virtual machines are backed up.
The following table describes the policies that are designed to back up the virtual environment in three phases. Note that each policy relies on a different setting for the Primary VM identifier parameter.
Table: Three policies that back up virtual machines in phases
Policy | Query Builder rules | Backup result |
---|---|---|
First policy Primary VM identifier parameter: VM hostname | VMHostName IsSet | This policy backs up all virtual machines that have a host name. Any virtual machines that do not have a host name are excluded from the backup. |
Second policy Primary VM identifier parameter: VM display name | NOT VMHostName IsSet AND VMHasVDSName Equal 'TRUE' | This policy backs up all virtual machines that do not have a host name but that do have a valid display name. Any virtual machines that do not have a host name or a valid display name are excluded from the backup. See NetBackup character restrictions for the Primary VM identifier. |
Third policy Primary VM identifier parameter: VM UUID | NOT VMHostName IsSet AND NOT VMHasVDSName Equal 'TRUE' | This policy backs up the virtual machines that were not backed up by the first two policies. This policy selects the virtual machines that do not have a host name or a valid display name, but that do have a UUID. |
More information is available on the Primary VM identifier parameter and its effect on virtual machine selection.
See Effect of Primary VM identifier parameter on Selection column in Test Query results.
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