NetBackup™ Web UI Nutanix AHV 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. Configure and protect AHV assets from WebUI
    1.  
      Configure and protect the AHV assets from the NetBackup web UI
  4. Managing AHV clusters
    1.  
      Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host
    3.  
      Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host
    4.  
      Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host
    5.  
      Migrate Java GUI/CLI added clusters into WebUI
    6.  
      Configure Nutanix AHV cluster
    7.  
      Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
    8.  
      About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
    9.  
      Add or browse an AHV cluster
    10.  
      Add new cluster credentials
    11.  
      Update and validate AHV cluster credentials
    12.  
      Remove AHV Clusters
    13.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    14.  
      Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
    15.  
      Update the intelligent VM group
    16.  
      Remove the intelligent VM group
    17.  
      Set CHAP for iSCSI
    18.  
      Add an AHV access host
    19.  
      Remove an AHV access host
    20.  
      Change resource limits for AHV resource types
    21.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
  5. Protecting AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups
    3.  
      Edit protection settings for an AHV asset
    4.  
      Schedules and Retention
    5.  
      Backup options
    6.  
      Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
    7.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    8.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  6. Recovering AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to consider before you recover the AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover an AHV virtual machine
    4.  
      About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
    5.  
      Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
    6.  
      SSH key fingerprint
    7.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
    8.  
      Recovery target options
    9.  
      Pre-recovery checks
    10.  
      About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
    11.  
      Prerequisites for agent based files and folder recovery
    12.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
    13.  
      Limitations
  7. Troubleshooting AHV operations
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for NetBackup for AHV
    2.  
      Error during AHV credential addition
    3.  
      Error during the AHV virtual machines discovery phase
    4.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    5.  
      Error run into while backing up AHV virtual machines
    6.  
      Error while restoring AHV virtual machines
  8. API and command line options for AHV
    1.  
      Using APIs and command line options to manage, protect, or recover AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Additional NetBackup options for AHV configuration
    3.  
      Additional information about the rename file

Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines

Use NetBackup web UI to protect and recover the virtual machines that are created on the AHV platform. You can also use APIs and command line options for the same.

See Using APIs and command line options to manage, protect, or recover AHV virtual machines.

The following table describes the high-level steps or a checklist to protect the AHV virtual machines:

Table: Configure and protect AHV virtual machines using NetBackup

Step overview

Description and reference

Deploy NetBackup to protect AHV VMs

On a very high level to protect AHV VMs you need:

  • NetBackup primary server

  • NetBackup media server (Recommended)

  • NetBackup client that can act as a backup host

The operating system of the backup host must be a Linux RHEL, SUSE, or Windows. The backup host can be a NetBackup media server or a client, or an NetBackup Appliance.

NetBackup appliance including Flex appliance and Flex scale appliance is also supported as a NetBackup media server that can act as a backup host.

NetBackup uses an agentless architecture to protect the AHV VMs. The communication between NetBackup and AHV cluster happens through Nutanix AHV APIs.

Configure an AHV access host for backup and recovery

An AHV access host acts as a backup host and a recovery host during backup and recovery respectively. The access host is involved in the data movement during the backup and restore operations.

If you plan to use a backup host that is not a NetBackup media server or an appliance, add the backup host to the NetBackup AHV Access Hosts list.

Note:

A backup host which is not a media server or an appliance needs to have the NetBackup client installed on it.

See Add an AHV access host.

Enable secure communication between NetBackup and AHV

The following sections contain more information about setting up a secure communication between NetBackup and AHV:

Manage AHV clusters and intelligent VM groups

Protect the AHV VMs

iSCSI Transport for Windows backup hosts

Prerequisite

For Windows 2012 or later, iSCSI client initiator is present on Windows. By default, the iSCSI initiator service is stopped or disabled on Windows.

See Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host.

Note:

If a backup or a recovery host that is selected is on Windows, ensure that iSCSI service is running on windows computer to avoid failure of backup or restore jobs.

iSCSI Transport for Linux backup hosts

Prerequisite

To use iSCSI, scsi-initiator-utils package must be installed. By default, it is installed on the RHEL/SUSE.

See Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host.

Note:

To use the NFS protocol on the Linux backup or recovery host, NFS allowed listing of the host on the Nutanix AHV Prism Console is required. For details, refer https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/127664414-132725336-0/v127698742-132725336.

If the iscsi-initiator-utils package is already installed on the backup or the recovery host, ensure that the iSCSI daemon is running.

  • To check the status of the daemon use the command systemctl status iscsid.

  • If the daemon is disabled then run the command systemctl enable iscsid and then run the command to start the iSCSI daemon systemctl start iscsid.

Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with Nutanix AHV clusters

One-way CHAP:

  • iSCSI initiator authenticates with the target (AHV) using the random generated CHAP password/secret.

Mutual CHAP - automatic:

  • NetBackup Credential Management Service (CMS) automatically generates a credential with the prefix AHV_ISCSI_MUTUAL_AUTO_ for the backup/recovery host CHAP password. This credential is used for mutual authentication between the iSCSI initiator that is NetBackup backup/recovery host and the target that is AHV.

    You can set a retention period for these auto-generated CHAP passwords. The default retention period for the auto-generated CHAP passwords is 90 days from the date of creation.

    Note:

    The default configuration is one-way CHAP. To enable the Mutual CHAP option:

    See Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters.

Set global limits on the use of AHV resources

VMs are automatically protected, when they are created, over a period of time the number of VMs protected concurrently can grow large. The large number of concurrent backups can affect the AHV performance as well as backup performance.

You can set the global limits to manage the AHV resources efficiently.

See Change resource limits for AHV resource types.

NetBackup Automatic Backup Host selection

NetBackup Automatic backup host selection option internally uses NetBackup media server load balancing to allocate snapshot/backup jobs to an available, supported media servers. NetBackup avoids sending jobs to busy media servers.

Note:

Application consistent backups require NetBackup 9.1 or later on the media server.

Prerequisite

  • Click Storage > Storage Server. Add all the supported media servers for load balancing.

  • Click Storage > Storage Unit > storage unit name > Under Media Server section and select Allow NetBackup to automatically select.

  • When you create an AHV Protection plan, select Automatic for the Select server or host to use for backups setting.