NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. Managing VMware servers
    1.  
      Add VMware servers
    2.  
      Validate and update VMware server credentials
    3.  
      Browse VMware servers
    4.  
      Remove VMware servers
    5.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    6.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    7.  
      Add a VMware access host
    8.  
      Remove a VMware access host
    9.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    3. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Create an instant access VM
    2.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    3.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    4.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    5. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
  6. Instant rollback
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant rollback
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant rollback feature
    3.  
      Instant rollback from a VM backup image
  7. Continuous data protection
    1.  
      CDP terminology
    2.  
      CDP Architecture
    3.  
      About continuous data protection
    4.  
      Prerequisites
    5.  
      Capacity-based licensing for CDP
    6.  
      Configuring CDP
    7.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Sizing considerations
    9.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    10.  
      Controlling full sync
    11.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    12.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    13.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    14.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    15.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  9. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using CDP

  • CDP for VMware exclusively supports accelerator-based backup. So, CDP needs accelerator-compliant storage units based on MSDP or OST-based storage.

  • CDP uses file system as staging area on CDP gateway. See the Software compatibility list for the supported file systems.

  • The media server that is associated with MSDP should have NetBackup version 9.1 or higher.

  • Capacity based and traditional license for enabling the feature.

  • The port 33056 on the CDP gateway, must be open for ESXi server to communicate to CDP gateway.

  • VMware server credentials need privileges for NetBackup to start, stop, restart, and refresh the Common Information Model (CIM) service on the ESXi host.

  • You can configure a CDP gateway on RHEL-based NetBackup media server platform.

  • Create a VMware storage policy for replication using the VAIO component. Attach the storage policy to each disk of the VMs that you want to protect using CDP. For details, see Veritas support knowledge base article on How to create vtstap storage policy in VMware vCenter.

Veritas IO filter for VAIO requirement

You can download and deploy the VAIO drivers package, version 4.0.0, to use with your CDP deployment. Refer to the Software compatibility list for the latest version and information on how to download it.

You must install the vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) on the vCenter cluster before configuring protection in NetBackup. Note that you do not need to deploy VIB on vCenter for restore purpose. See Veritas support knowledge base article on Deploying an IO Filter solution to a cluster using VMware MOB.

Storage Policy requirements

Before you can deploy CDP, you need to create a VM storage policy. The storage policy must have a component chosen as "Replication" and provider as "vtstap". This policy must be attached to each disk of VM to be protected. Otherwise backup jobs fail. For details, see Veritas support knowledge base article on How to create vtstap storage policy in VMware vCenter

Note:

Detaching the storage policy results in loss of protection for the VM.