NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)
Platform: Linux,UNIX,Windows
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web user interface
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
  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.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
    10.  
      VMWARE_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers
  3. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
    2. Custom protection settings for an asset
      1.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      2.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    4.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  4. VM recovery and 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.  
      Recover a VM
    6.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    7.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    8.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
  5. Troubleshooting VM recovery
    1.  
      Errors encountered when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors encountered when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors encountered when you review Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error encountered when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting issues with backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors encountered when you change the recovery destination

Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups

Use the following procedure to subscribe an asset (VMs or intelligent VM groups) to a protection plan. When you subscribe an asset to a protection plan, you assign predefined backup settings to the asset. An on-demand (manual) backup requires access to the NetBackup Administration Console. Contact the NetBackup administrator for assistance.

Note the following requirements:

  • You must have access to the VMs by means of the appropriate role-based access control (RBAC) that the NetBackup security administrator assigned to you.

  • You must have access to the protection plans that the backup administrator has granted you access to (by means of RBAC).

  • The appropriate services on the master server must be running and the web UI must be accessible.

    For assistance, contact the backup administrator.

To protect VMs or VM groups

  1. On the left, click VMware.
  2. On the Virtual machines tab or Intelligent VM groups tab, click the box for the VM or the VM group and click Add protection.
  3. Select from the following protection options:

    • Subscribe to a protection plan

      Select this option to use the settings in a selected plan. Any changes to the plan are inherited automatically.

    • Custom protection

      Select this option to customize a selected plan. Not all plans and settings can be customized. Any changes to the selected plan are not applied to the assets or asset group you selected.

  4. Select a protection plan.

    For VMware administrators, RBAC permissions determine which protection plans are listed. For a description of the available protection plan options, see the NetBackup Web UI Backup Administrator's Guide.

  5. To subscribe the VM or the VM group to the selected plan, click Protect.

    The results of your choices appear under Virtual machines or Intelligent VM groups.