Veritas NetBackup™ for Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup for Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
    1.  
      Protect AHV using NetBackup
    2.  
      NetBackup terminology related to the AHV backup
    3.  
      NetBackup for AHV environment
  2. Prerequisites, notes, and restrictions
    1.  
      Prerequisites
    2. Notes and restrictions
      1.  
        NetBackup character restrictions for virtual machine names
  3. Configuring NetBackup communication with AHV
    1.  
      Establishing communication between components
    2. Adding a backup host to the NetBackup master server
      1.  
        Adding a backup host to the NetBackup master access list
      2.  
        Configuring a NetBackup Appliance as a backup host
    3.  
      Adding a backup host to the Acropolis Cluster access list
    4.  
      Adding the Nutanix Acropolis Cluster credentials for NetBackup
    5. Managing SSL certificates
      1.  
        Managing SSL certificates on NetBackup Appliance
      2.  
        About the nb_nutanix-ahv configuration file
  4. Configuring NetBackup policies for AHV
    1.  
      About the BigData policy type
    2.  
      Creating a BigData policy using the NetBackup Policies utility
    3.  
      Creating a BigData policy using the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard
    4.  
      Creating a BigData policy using the NetBackup Command Line Interface
  5. Backup and recovery
    1. Back up the Nutanix AHV virtual machines
      1.  
        Basic phases in a NetBackup backup of an AHV
    2. Overview of the Nutanix AHV virtual machines recovery process
      1.  
        About recovering the Nutanix AHV virtual machines
      2.  
        Planning the recovery of a Nutanix AHV VM
      3. Recovering a Nutanix AHV VM using the Backup, Archive, and Restore console
        1.  
          About recovering AHV VMs from the images that are backed up using NetBackup versions 8.1, 8.1.1, or 8.1.2
      4. Recovering a Nutanix AHV VM using the command line
        1.  
          Creating or modifying the rename file
        2.  
          Using the command line to recover Nutanix AHV virtual machines
  6. Troubleshooting issues
    1.  
      Troubleshooting issues related to AHV backup
    2.  
      NetBackup logs
    3.  
      About errors during policy creation, restore, and validation
    4.  
      NetBackup status codes
  7. Appendix A. NetBackup commands to backup and restore Nutanix AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      NetBackup commands for protecting the AHV

NetBackup character restrictions for virtual machine names

When you configure a BigData policy to back up an Acropolis cluster, you are required to add clients or virtual machines. To add a virtual machine to the BigData policy, you must provide the name of the virtual machine.

You can obtain the name of the virtual machine from the VM Name column on the Prism web console.

The name of the virtual machine is case-sensitive. Certain characters are not allowed in the virtual machine name. If the name contains wrong or invalid characters, the backup may fail.

For NetBackup, the following characters are allowed in the virtual machine names:

  • Uppercase and lowercase ASCII characters

  • Numbers

  • Period (.)

  • Hyphen (-)

  • Underscore (_)

  • Plus sign (+)

  • Percent sign (%)

  • Left and right parentheses ()

  • Spaces

    • If the VM name contains a space, substitute the space with "%20". For example, if the VM name is Nutanix VM, you must enter Nutanix%20VM.

    • However, if the VM name itself contains "%20", it is interpreted as a space, which makes the virtual machine name invalid or non-existent. This interpretation of "%20" may fail the backup.

      For example, the name of your virtual machine is "Nutanix%20VM". The policy interprets "Nutanix%20VM" as "Nutanix VM", which is incorrect and does not exist and thus, failing the policy validation.

    • Further, using a consecutive sequence of "%20" is not allowed.