NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (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

Advanced recovery options

Create a new BIOS UUID

Restores the VM with a new BIOS UUID instead of the original BIOS UUID.

Create a new instance UUID

Restores the VM with a new instance UUID instead of the original instance UUID.

Remove backing information for devices

For example, this option restores the VM without restoring any ISO file that was mounted when the VM was backed up.

If this option is disabled, the recovery might fail if the backing information is not longer available for devices, such as DVD/CD-ROM drives, or serial or parallel ports.

Remove original network configuration

Removes the NIC cards from the VM. Note that for network access, the restored VM requires network configuration.

Enable this option if:

  • The network connections on the destination virtual machine have changed since the backup was made.

  • The original virtual machine still exists and a duplicate VM may cause conflicts.

Retain original hardware version

Restores the VM with its original hardware version (such as 4). It retains the original version even if the target ESXi server by default uses a different hardware version (such as 7 or 8). If the target ESXi server does not support the virtual machine's hardware version, the restore may fail.

If this option is disabled, the restored virtual machine is converted to the default hardware version that the ESXi server uses.