NetBackup™ Web UI Red Hat Virtualization Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.3.0.1, 10.2)
  1. Managing Red Hat Virtualization servers
    1.  
      Upgrading to NetBackup 10.3
    2.  
      Quick configuration checklist to protect Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
    3. Configuring secure communication between the Red Hat Virtualization server and NetBackup host
      1.  
        ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
      2.  
        ECA_CRL_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients
      3.  
        VIRTUALIZATION_HOSTS_SECURE_CONNECT_ENABLED for servers and clients
      4.  
        VIRTUALIZATION_CRL_CHECK for NetBackup servers and clients
    4.  
      About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with Red Hat Virtualization
    5. Add or browse an Red Hat Virtualization manager
      1.  
        Adding a backup host to the NetBackup primary server
      2.  
        Remove an Red Hat Virtualization manager
    6.  
      Configure autodiscovery of the Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
    7.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    8.  
      Remove an intelligent VM group
    9.  
      Setting global limits on the use of Red Hat Virtualization resources
  2. Protecting RHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to know before you protect Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
    2.  
      Protect Red Hat Virtualization VMs or intelligent VM groups
    3. Customize protection settings for a RHV asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  3. Recovering RHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to consider before you recover the Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover an Red Hat Virtualization virtual machine
    4.  
      About the supported virtual disk formats and disk provisioning during VM recovery
  4. Troubleshooting RHV VM protection and recovery
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for NetBackup for Red Hat Virtualization
    2.  
      Error during the Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines discovery phase
    3.  
      Error run into while backing up Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
    4.  
      Error while restoring Red Hat Virtualization virtual machines
  5. API and command line options for RHV
    1. Using APIs and command line options to manage, protect, or recover RHV VMs
      1.  
        Additional information about the rename file
    2. Additional NetBackup options for Red Hat Virtualization configuration
      1.  
        OVIRT_IMAGEIO_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT option for NetBackup servers
      2.  
        RHV_CREATEDISK_TIMEOUT option for NetBackup servers
      3.  
        RHV_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers

ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH for NetBackup servers and clients

The ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH option specifies the file path to the certificate bundle file that contains all trusted root CA certificates.

This certificate file should have one or more certificates in PEM format.

Do not specify the ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH option if you use the Windows certificate store.

The trust store supports certificates in the following formats:

  • PKCS #7 or P7B file having certificates of the trusted root certificate authorities that are bundled together. This file may either be PEM or DER encoded.

  • A file containing the PEM encoded certificates of the trusted root certificate authorities that are concatenated together.

This option is mandatory for file-based certificates.

The root CA certificate in Cloudera distribution can be obtained from the Cloudera administrator. It may have a manual TLS configuration or an Auto-TLS enabled for the Hadoop cluster. For both cases, NetBackup needs a root CA certificate from the administrator.

The root CA certificate from the Hadoop cluster can validate the certificates for all nodes and allow NetBackup to run the backup and restore process in case of the secure (SSL) cluster. This root CA certificate is a bundle of certificates that has been issued to all such nodes.

Certificate from root CA must be configured under ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH in case of self-signed, third party CA or Local/Intermediate CA environments. For example: In case of AUTO-TLS enabled Cloudera environments, you can typically find the root CA file named with cm-auto-global_cacerts.pem at path /var/lib/cloudera-scm-agent/agent-cert. For more details, refer Cloudera documentation.

Table: ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH information

Usage

Description

Where to use

On NetBackup servers or clients.

If certificate validation is required for VMware, Red Hat Virtualization servers, or Nutanix AHV, this option must be set on the NetBackup primary server and respective access hosts, irrespective of the certificate authority that NetBackup uses for host communication (NetBackup CA or external CA).

How to use

Use the nbgetconfig and the nbsetconfig commands to view, add, or change the option.

For information about these commands, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

Use the following format:

ECA_TRUST_STORE_PATH = Path to the external CA certificate

For example: c:\rootCA.pem

If you use this option on a Flex Appliance application instance, the path must be /mnt/nbdata/hostcert/.

Equivalent UI property

No equivalent exists.