NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.2)
  1. Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the VMware administrator
  2. 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.  
      About VMware discovery
    11.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    12.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  3. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Customize protection settings for a VMware asset
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  4. Malware scan
    1.  
      Assets by protection plan
  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.  
      VM malware scan
  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.  
      Steps to configure CDP
    7.  
      Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    9.  
      Sizing considerations
    10.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    11.  
      Controlling full sync
    12.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    13.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    14.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    15.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    16.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. VM recovery
    1. Recover a VM
      1.  
        Recovery options
      2.  
        Advanced recovery options
      3.  
        Advanced recovery options: Format of restored virtual disks
      4.  
        Advanced recovery options: Transport mode
    2.  
      Recover VMware Cloud Director virtual machines
  9. VMware agentless restore
    1.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    2.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    3. Provide access to a credential for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM
      1.  
        Add a credential for a VMware guest VM
      2.  
        Create a custom role for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM, with a credential
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  10. Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
    1.  
      About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
    2.  
      Deployment and architecture
    3.  
      Features and applications supported
    4.  
      Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
    5.  
      Operations supported with hardware snapshot
    6.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
    7.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
    8.  
      Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
    9.  
      Notes and limitations
    10.  
      Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
  11. 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

Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)

Prerequisites (fresh install and upgrade):

  • The BYO storage server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and later, same as the NetBackup Appliance operating system version.

  • The BYO storage server with docker/podman installed.

    • The docker/podman version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (RHEL extra).

    • The docker/podman application is included in the environment path.

  • The BYO storage server with NFS service installed.

  • The BYO storage server with NGINX version installed.

    • The NGINX version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (epel).

    • Ensure that the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages are installed from the same RHEL yum source (RHEL server) and then run the following commands:

      • semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10087

      • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

    • Ensure that the /mnt folder on the storage server is not mounted by any mount points directly. Mount points should be mounted to its subfolders.

    • Enable the logrotate permission in selinux using the following command:

      semanage permissive -a logrotate_t

  • For BYO, docker/podman container is used to browse VMDK files. Data related to the container is stored at the following location: /var/lib/ and requires minimum 20 GB free space.