NetBackup™ Web UI Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.1.1)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Overview of configuring and protecting AHV assets in the NetBackup web UI
  2. Managing AHV clusters
    1.  
      Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host
    3.  
      Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host
    4.  
      Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host
    5.  
      Migrate Java GUI/CLI added clusters into WebUI
    6.  
      Configure Nutanix AHV cluster
    7.  
      Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
    8.  
      About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
    9.  
      Add or browse an AHV cluster
    10.  
      Remove AHV Clusters
    11.  
      Add a new Nutanix Prism Central
    12.  
      Add new Prism Central server credentials
    13.  
      Remove Nutanix Prism Central
    14.  
      When to use Prism Central server
    15.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    16.  
      Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
    17.  
      Update the intelligent VM group
    18.  
      Remove the intelligent VM group
    19.  
      Set CHAP for iSCSI
    20.  
      Add an AHV access host
    21.  
      Remove an AHV access host
    22.  
      Change resource limits for AHV resource types
    23.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
  3. Managing credentials
    1. Managing AHV cluster credentials
      1.  
        Add new cluster credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate AHV cluster credentials
    2. Managing Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      1.  
        Add new Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate Nutanix Prism Central credentials
    3.  
      View the credential name that is applied to an asset
    4.  
      Edit or delete a named credential
  4. Protecting AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups
    3.  
      Customize protection settings for an AHV asset
    4.  
      Schedules and retention
    5.  
      Backup options
    6.  
      Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
    7.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    8.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. Recovering AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to consider before you recover the AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover an AHV virtual machine
    4.  
      About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
    5.  
      Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
    6.  
      SSH key fingerprint
    7.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
    8.  
      Recovery target options
    9.  
      Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
    10.  
      About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
    11.  
      Prerequisites for agent-based files and folder recovery
    12.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
    13.  
      Limitations
  6. Troubleshooting AHV operations
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for NetBackup for AHV
    2.  
      Error during AHV credential addition
    3.  
      Error during the AHV virtual machines discovery phase
    4.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    5.  
      Error run into while backing up AHV virtual machines
    6.  
      Error while restoring AHV virtual machines
  7. API and command line options for AHV
    1.  
      Using APIs and command line options to manage, protect, or recover AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Additional NetBackup options for AHV configuration
    3.  
      Additional information about the rename file

Add or browse an AHV cluster

You can add and browse AHV cluster and their credentials.

To add AHV cluster and their credentials

  1. On the left, click Nutanix AHV then click the AHV cluster tab.
  2. Click Add to add an AHV cluster and enter the following:

    See Error during AHV credential addition.

    • Cluster name

      Note:

      NetBackup recommends that you use the FQDN to add the AHV cluster. The cluster name must follow the limit of 218 characters.

    • REST API port (default: 9440)

      This port must remain open between backup host and AHV cluster.

      See About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV.

    • Select the Use Prism Central for this cluster checkbox to protect Prism Central server related attributes of virtual machines. For example to capture virtual private cloud networking related attributes, project, category and owner related attributes of VM.

      See When to use Prism Central server.

      See Add a new Nutanix Prism Central.

      Note:

      Prism Central server must be added in the NetBackup environment, before you select this checkbox.

    • Select a backup host

      This backup host is used for validation and discovery.

      Note:

      Credential validation and discovery of virtual machines is only supported by NetBackup 9.1 or later.

    • Associate credential

      Do one of the following:

  3. Click Add and Manage permissions.

    Validations for all the inputs are performed.

    Select the roles you want to have access to this cluster. See Managing role-based access control in the NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide.

  4. To add another AHV cluster credentials, click Add.
Inline actions on AHV cluster

You can run the following inline actions on an AHV cluster:

  • Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.

  • Edit: Modify the AHV cluster credentials.

  • Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.

  • Manage Permissions: Used to add or manage the permissions on selected cluster.

Bulk actions on AHV cluster

You can select one or more AHV cluster and run the following bulk actions:

  • Discover: Manually discovers the VM assets that belong to the selected AHV cluster.

    Note:

    Discovery is triggered in a sequential manner for clusters one after the other.

  • Validate credentials: Validates the credentials of the AHV cluster.

  • Delete: Removes the AHV cluster.

Browse an AHV cluster

You can browse the AHV clusters to locate VMs and storage containers and their details.

To browse AHV cluster

  1. On the left, click Nutanix AHV.
  2. Click the AHV cluster tab, and begin searching.

    The list includes the AHV clusters that you have access to.

    The tab shows the AHV clusters that you can access in the following hierarchy:

    All
    AHV_clusters
    	cluster1
    		VirtualMachine
    		StorageContainer
    	cluster2
    		VirtualMachine
      StorageContainer
    		

    To locate a cluster, you can enter a string in the search field.

  3. Click on an AHV cluster to view details.
  4. Click on a virtual machine to view its protection status, recovery points, and restore activity.
  5. Click Add protection to subscribe the selected VM to a protection plan. You can also select Backup now, Recover, and Manage Permission options.

    Note:

    Ensure that the protection plan for AHV exists to add protection to an asset.

  6. Click on a storage container to view free space, and last discovered time.

    Note:

    Once the data exceeds the advertising capacity, the additional data is shown as negative and for such value. NetBackup WebUI displays an empty filed and corresponding API shows -ve value for the free space field for particular storage container.

  7. For storage container, you can Manage Permission.

    Note:

    Manage Permission is enabled only when you select the storage container.