NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Validating VMware virtualization server certificates in NetBackup
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- Backup options on the VMware tab
- Exclude Disks tab
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using Backup, Archive, and Restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using NetBackup commands
- Restoring individual files
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
Notes and limitations for the backup and restore of VMware storage policies
NetBackup supports protecting and restoring distinct storage policies which are assigned to a VM's home directory and also to any virtual disk.
A vCenter VM can have one or more storage policies assigned to it. NetBackup captures storage policy information during a VM backup and can apply the same or a different storage policy on a full-VM restore.
A best effort attempt to capture a VM's storage policy information is made during the backup process.
If a VM's storage policy information was captured during a backup and
option is selected during the recovery, the default storage policy information displayed is the information captured during backup.If a VMs storage policy information was not captured during backup, NetBackup attempts to restore the selected storage policy assigned to a VM's home directory and/or its virtual disks during recovery of the VM. If the storage policy cannot be applied, NetBackup completes the recovery of the virtual machine to the selected datastore and set the job status to 1.
To restore a VM with storage policies that are different than what was captured during backup time, the web UI or CLI needs to be used for the restore.
To troubleshoot storage policy-related issues during backup, refer to the
bpfis
logs. To troubleshoot storage policy-related issues during restore, refer to thebrpd
andbpVMutil
logs.vMotion derived restore of an Instant Recovery (IR) or Instant Access (IA) VM, does not apply storage policies.
To apply the storage policies information on full VM restore, the recovery host version must be 10.3 or later.
vMotion derived restore of an Instant Recovery (or Instant Access) VM does not apply storage policies.