NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring NetBackup
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. 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 of VMware assets
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    3. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. 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
  6. Instant rollback
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant rollback
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant rollback feature
    3.  
      Instant rollback from a VM backup image
  7. Continuous data protection
    1.  
      CDP terminology
    2.  
      CDP Architecture
    3.  
      About continuous data protection
    4.  
      Prerequisites
    5.  
      Capacity-based licensing for CDP
    6.  
      Configuring CDP
    7.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Sizing considerations
    9.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    10.  
      Controlling full sync
    11.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    12.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    13.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    14.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    15.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. 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
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  9. 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

Troubleshooting for CDP

VAIO stops sending data to CDP gateway

Happens when the IOFilter encounters problem and hence enters into NOOP (Non-Operational) mode.

Possible reasons:

  • IOfilter encountered problem with datastore.

  • IOfilter encountered problem while reading from vmdk on ESXi server .

Workaround:

Remove the VTSTAP policy from all the disks of protected the VMs and reattach.

Error: Storage policy is not detached from one or more virtual disks of virtual machine

Happens when the storage policy is not detached from all the virtual disks of the VM. The next backups fail with error code 156.

Workaround:

Remove the Veritas I/O filter based storage (vtstap) policy from all the disks the VM that CDP protected previously. You can do this operation on the vCenter.

Error: Failed to retrieve or parse the version of Veritas IO filter

You may get this error when trying to subscribe one or more VMs to CDP protection plan. Occurs when the CIM server service on ESXi server is non-responsive.

Workaround:

Restart the CIM server service on the ESXi server and retry the VM subscription to CDP protection plan. You can find the CIM server service of ESXi server, under Configure > Services section of the ESXi.

nbcctd service goes in inconsistent state. Cannot configure the CDP gateway.

Possible reasons:

  • When you mount a read-only file system and provide its path in the CDP gateway configuration, service is configured, but the gateway fails to start.

  • When you try to configure the gateway again, by giving a read/write path, the service still fails to start.

Workaround: When this happens, you need to remove the <NBU installation path>/netbackup/nbcct directory and retry the operation.