NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Overview of configuring and protecting AHV assets in the NetBackup web UI
  2. RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
    2.  
      Assign both the Default VMware Administrator and Default AHV Administrator roles to a user
    3.  
      Create a custom role for all Nutanix AHV permissions and additional VMware asset permissions
    4.  
      Create a custom role for all VMware permissions and additional Nutanix AHV asset permissions
  3. Managing AHV clusters
    1.  
      Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central 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 the web UI
    6.  
      Prerequisites to configure Nutanix AHV cluster
    7.  
      About support for Nutanix segmented iSCSI network
    8.  
      Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
    9.  
      About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
    10.  
      Add or browse an AHV cluster
    11.  
      Remove AHV Clusters
    12.  
      Add a new Nutanix Prism Central
    13.  
      Add new Prism Central server credentials
    14.  
      Remove Nutanix Prism Central
    15.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    16.  
      Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
    17.  
      Update the intelligent VM group
    18.  
      Remove the intelligent VM group
    19.  
      Set CHAP for iSCSI
    20.  
      Add an AHV access host
    21.  
      Remove an AHV access host
    22.  
      Change resource limits for AHV resource types
    23.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
    24. Scan for malware
      1.  
        Scanning backup images
      2.  
        Assets by workload type
  4. Managing credentials
    1. Managing AHV cluster credentials
      1.  
        Add new cluster credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate AHV cluster credentials
    2. Managing Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      1.  
        Add new Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate Nutanix Prism Central credentials
    3.  
      View the credential name that is applied to an asset
    4.  
      Edit or delete a named credential
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Things to consider and limitations before you use the instant access feature
    2.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    3. 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. Protecting AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups using Protection plan
    3.  
      Backup AHV VMs or intelligent groups using Policy
    4.  
      Protect AHV VMs within VPC
    5.  
      Customize protection settings for an AHV asset
    6.  
      Modify policy for an AHV asset
    7.  
      Schedules and retention
    8.  
      Backup options
    9.  
      Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
    10.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    11.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  7. 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.  
      Recover an AHV VM within VPC
    5.  
      About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
    6.  
      Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
    7.  
      SSH key fingerprint
    8.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
    9.  
      Recovery target options
    10.  
      Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
    11.  
      About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
    12.  
      Prerequisites for agent-based files and folder recovery
    13.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
    14.  
      Limitations
  8. Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
    1.  
      Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS
    2.  
      Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure
  9. 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
  10. 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

Scanning backup images

This section describes the procedure for scanning client backup images of a particular policy for malware.

To scan policy of client backup images for malware

  1. On the left, click Detection and reporting > Malware detection.
  2. On the Malware detection page, click Scan for malware.
  3. In the Search by option, select Backup images.
  4. In the search criteria, review and edit the following:
    • Policy name

      Only supported policy types are listed.

    • Client name

      Displays the clients that have backup images for a supported policy type.

    • Policy type

      Displays all the supported policies which are enabled for malware scanning.

      Note:

      Nutanix-AHV policy would display Nutanix-AHV images, if the backups are taken via Nutanix-AHV policy.

      Warning:

      The Hypervisor policy type displays Nutanix AHV and RHV images. NetBackup supports malware scanning only for Nutanix AHV images.

    • Type of backup

    • Copies

      If the selected copy does not support instant access, then the backup image is skipped for the malware scan.

    • Disk pool

      MSDP (PureDisk), OST (DataDomain) and AdvancedDisk storage type disk pools are listed.

    • Disk type

      MSDP (PureDisk), OST (DataDomain) and AdvancedDisk disk types are listed.

    • Infection status

      The malware infected status of the backup images can be searched based on the infection detected by malware scan, file hash search, not infected, not scanned or all.

    • For the Select the timeframe of backups, verify the date and the time range or update it.

  5. Click Search.

    Select the search criteria and ensure that the selected scan host is active and available.

  6. From the Select the backups to scan table select one or more images for scan.
  7. In the Select a malware scanner host pool, Select the appropriate host pool name.

    Note:

    Scan host from the selected scan host pool must be able to access the instant access mount created on the storage server which is configured with NFS/SMB share type.

  8. Click Scan for malware.
  9. After the scan is initiated, the Scan status is displayed.

    The following are the status fields:

    • Not scanned

    • Not infected

    • Infected

    • Failed

      Hover over the status to view the reason for the failed scan.

      Note:

      Any backup images that fail the validation are ignored. Malware scanning is supported for the backup images that are stored on storage with instant access capability and for the supported policy types only.

    • In progress

    • Pending

      Note:

      You can cancel the malware scan for one or more in progress and pending jobs.