NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (8.3)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the 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.  
      Change resource limits for VMware resource types
    10.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
    12.  
      VMWARE_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers
  3. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
    2. Edit protection settings for a asset
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    4.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  4. 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. Instant access Build Your Own (BYO)
      1.  
        Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      2.  
        Hardware configuration requirement of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)
      3.  
        Frequently asked questions
  5. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
  6. Troubleshooting VMware operations
    1.  
      Errors when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)

Prerequisites (fresh install and upgrade):

  • The BYO storage server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and 7.7, same as the NetBackup Appliance operating system version.

  • The BYO storage server with docker installed.

    • The docker version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (RHEL extra).

    • The docker application is included in the environment path.

  • The BYO storage server with NFS service installed.

  • The BYO storage server with NGINX version installed.

    • The NGINX version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (epel).

    • Before you start the storage configuration, ensure that the new BYO nginx configuration entry: /etc/nginx/conf.d/byo.conf is part of the HTTP section of the original: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file.

    • Ensure that the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages are installed from the same RHEL yum source (RHEL server) and then run the following commands:

      • semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10087

      • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

    • Ensure that the /mnt folder on the storage server is not mounted by any mount points directly. Mount points should be mounted to its subfolders.

    • Enable the logrotate permission in selinux using the following command:

      semanage permissive -a logrotate_t