NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide
- Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
- Managing VMware servers
- Add VMware servers
- Validate and update VMware server credentials
- Browse VMware servers
- Remove VMware servers
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Remove an intelligent VM group
- Add a VMware access host
- Remove a VMware access host
- Change resource limits for VMware resource types
- About VMware discovery
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
- Discover VMware server assets manually
- Protecting VMs
- Malware scan
- Instant access
- Instant rollback
- Continuous data protection
- CDP terminology
- CDP architecture
- About continuous data protection
- Prerequisites
- Capacity-based licensing for CDP
- Steps to configure CDP
- Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
- Defining the CDP gateway
- Sizing considerations
- Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
- Controlling full sync
- Monitoring CDP jobs
- Using accelerators with CDP
- Recovering CDP protected VMs
- Some limitations of CDP
- Troubleshooting for CDP
- VM recovery
- VMware agentless restore
- Individual file and folder restore
- Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
- About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
- Deployment and architecture
- Features and applications supported
- Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
- Operations supported with hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
- Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
- Notes and limitations
- Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
- Troubleshooting VMware operations
Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
You can use the NetBackup Activity Monitor to keep track of virtual machines backups as they occur. The number of jobs that appear in the Activity Monitor depends on the policy's Application Consistent Snapshot option.
Note:
By default, the Application Consistent Snapshot option is enabled. In most cases, NetBackup recommends that you keep this option enabled. If this option is disabled, data in the virtual machine may not be in a consistent state when the snapshot occurs.
Table: Job flow in the Activity Monitor
Application consistent snapshot option | Job flow in the Activity Monitor |
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Enabled | The first job discovers the virtual machines. This job is labeled Backup. Backup job starts with the following:
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Disabled | The first job discovers the virtual machines. This job is labeled Backup. Backup job starts with the following:
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Example 1: Virtual machine jobs with the Application Consistent Snapshot option enabled.
The jobs occurred as follows:
The discovery (parent) Backup job for virtual machine discovery is ID 2.
Job 3 made VMware snapshots of the virtual machine VMwareNAS_DemoVM.
Job 4 made snapshots of datastore NetAPP_SS_200.
Job 5 parent Backup from Snapshot export and mount the snapshot.
Job 6 child Backup from Snapshot does the backup and creates the backup image.
Example 2: Virtual machine jobs with the Application Consistent Snapshot option disable.
The jobs occurred as follows:
The discovery (parent) Backup job for virtual machine discovery is ID 7.
Job 8 collected the configuration data of all the virtual machines selected (VM1, VM2, and so forth).
Jobs 9 snapshots of the virtual machine datastores.