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

Things to consider and limitations before you use the instant access feature

Note the following about the Instant access virtual machines feature:

  • This feature is supported with backup copies that are created from the local or cloud LSU (logical storage unit) using the NetBackup web UI or Instant Access APIs.

    For more information about limitations of instant access for cloud LSU (logical storage unit), refer to the NetBackup Deduplication Guide.

  • This feature is supported with backup copies that are created from protection plans or policies.

  • This feature is supported for NetBackup Appliance, NetBackup Virtual Appliance, Flex Appliance, and Build Your Own (BYO) server.

    Instant access on Flex WORM storage requires the following services:

    • NGINX, NFS. SAMBA, WINBIND (if Active directory is required), SPWS, VPFS

  • This feature is limited to 50 concurrent mount points from a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) media server or from a WORM storage server. If you have a Flex appliance, this feature is limited to 50 concurrent mount points from each node.

  • For file or folder download with the Download option, the NetBackup web UI must be able to access the media server with the same name or IP address that the primary server uses to connect to that media server.

  • If the media server appliance uses a third-party certificate, you need to create certain configurations on the NetBackup primary server before you use this feature.

    For more information, refer to the "Third-party certificates" and "Implementing third-party SSL certificates" sections in the NetBackup Appliance Security Guide.

  • A 5-minutes-alive-session threshold is defined in Appliance and BYO web server NGINX. The files and folders that are selected for download must be compressed and downloaded within this threshold.

  • To ensure that Instant Access works effectively after the storage server and primary server are upgraded from an earlier NetBackup version, restart the NetBackup Web Service on the upgraded primary server with the following commands:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbwmc stop

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbwmc start

  • If you have to download or restore files or folders from a Windows VM, ensure that the number of Windows registry hives are less than 10000.

    More information is available about registry hives.

Limitations
  • This feature does not support VMs that have a disk in the raw device mapping mode (RDM) or the VMs that have a disk in the Persistent mode.

  • For Windows restore, the ReFS file system is not supported.

  • The Instant Access feature does not support a Windows 10 compact operating system. To verify if your operating system is compressed, run compact "/compactos:query" on the command prompt before backing up your VM.

    To disable the compression, run "compact /compactos:never" on the command prompt before backing up your VM. You can then use the Instant Access feature for your VM backups.

  • The instant access feature does not support hard links. If you create a universal share from an image and the image has hard link files, vpfsd shows show these hard link files as having 0 bytes size.

  • For a Linux VM, mirrored volumes are not supported for instant access.