Veritas NetBackup™ 8.0 for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- 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
- 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 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring Services for Network File System (NFS) on the Windows 2003 R2 SP2 NetBackup media server and NetBackup clients (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
- Appendix E. SYMCquiesce utility for Linux virtual machines
About NetBackup for VMware
NetBackup for VMware provides backup and restore of the VMware virtual machines that run on VMware ESX servers. NetBackup for VMware takes advantage of VMware vStorage APIs for data protection. The backup process is off-loaded from the ESX server to a VMware backup host.
NetBackup for VMware does the following:
Performs off-host backup of virtual machines (NetBackup client software is not required on the virtual machine). Off-host backup reduces the backup processing load on the VMware host.
Increases the backup speed as compared to standard file-order backup methods, if the virtual machine is heavily populated with small files.
Automatically creates quiesced snapshots using VSS (Windows only). Creates the quiesced snapshots on Linux if the SYMCquiesce utility is installed.
Uses snapshot technology to keep virtual machines 100% available to users.
Supports VMware vSphere and vCloud Director.
Performs full backups and incremental backups, including block-level incrementals.
Backs up the full virtual machine.
Backs up the virtual machines even when they are turned off.
Can restore selected files from the backup.
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