NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.0)
  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.  
      Jobs: cancel, suspend, restart, resume, delete
    3.  
      Job monitoring
    4.  
      Search for or filter jobs in the jobs 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.  
      About VMware discovery
    11.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
    12.  
      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.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Customize protection settings for a VMware asset
    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.  
      Steps to configure 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
      1.  
        Recovery options
      2.  
        Advanced recovery options
      3.  
        Advanced recovery options: Format of restored virtual disks
      4.  
        Advanced recovery options: Transport mode
    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

Defining the CDP gateway

You need to define a gateway for your CDP deployment, before you can protect any VMs. You can define the CDP gateway in a VM that is a NetBackup media or primary server.

Note:

Before defining the CDP gateway ensure that your system time is synchronized with the network time.

To define a CDP gateway

  1. On the left, click VMware under Workloads.
  2. On the top right, click VMware settings, click Continuous data protection gateway.
  3. Click Add. Enter a Host name and Storage path. The storage path should have independent file system, other than root. Do not share this same location with other applications like MSDP.
  4. On the next page, if your gateway version is 9.1. specify the parameter Maximum number of concurrent jobs. as described in the table below, and click Save to save the gateway.

    If your gateway version is 10.0, click Advanced to specify the advanced parameters to configure and fine tune your CDP gateway. You can also use this set of parameters to estimate how many VMs you can support using CDP protection for a particular configuration of the gateway.

    Parameter

    Description

    Maximum number of concurrent jobs.

    The maximum number of CDP jobs that can run simultaneously in the gateway. A bigger number may indicate increased peak resource consumption

    Maximum number of simultaneous initial sync

    Number of VMs that can take full backup simultaneously during the initial phase of CDP protection. Specifying a higher value than the default, may cause increased resource consumption and affect existing protection.

    Reserved memory for Continuous data protection

    Reserved memory for the gateway. Enter a value in GB that is equal to or smaller than 90% of the total physical memory.

    Data staging area per VM

    Specify storage for each VM.

    Reserved staging area

    Additional storage area to handle the I/O spikes in the VMs.

  5. Click Estimate the number of VMs to calculate how many VMs this gateway will be able to support for this given configuration.
  6. Click Save, to add the gateway.