NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.1.1)
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Malware scan
    1.  
      Scan a VMware asset for malware
  4. 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.  
      VM malware scan
  5. 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
  6. 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.  
      Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    9.  
      Sizing considerations
    10.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    11.  
      Controlling full sync
    12.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    13.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    14.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    15.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    16.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  7. 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
    6.  
      Recover VMware Cloud Director virtual machines
  8. Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
    1.  
      About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
    2.  
      Deployment and architecture
    3.  
      Features and applications supported
    4.  
      Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
    5.  
      Operations supported with hardware snapshot
    6.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
    7.  
      Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
    8.  
      Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
    9.  
      Notes and limitations
    10.  
      Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
  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

Recover a VM

You can recover a VM to its original location where it existed when it was backed up or to different location. You can choose to recover from the default copy of the backup image or from an alternate copy, if one exists. The default copy is also known as the primary copy.

To recover a VM

  1. On the left, click VMware.
  2. Locate and click on the VM.
  3. Click the Recovery points tab. In the calendar view on the left, select the date on which the backup occurred.

    The available images are listed in rows with the backup timestamp for each image.

  4. Select the Allow the selection of recovery of points that are malware-affected to be able to recover malware affected images. This option is only available for the recovery points which contains malware-affected images.

    Note:

    This options is enabled only for users with required permissions.

  5. On the image that you want to recover, select one of the following image recovery options:

    • Recover

      Recover from the default copy of the backup image. This option is displayed if only one copy exists.

    • Recover from default copy

      Recover from the default copy of the backup image. This option is displayed if more than one copy exists.

    • nn copies

      Recover from the default copy or a different copy of the backup image. NetBackup allows up to ten copies of the same backup image. All available copies are displayed when you select this option. For each copy, the Storage name, Storage Server, and the Storage server type are displayed. Click Recover for the copy that you want to recover.

  6. Choose the type of recovery that you want to perform:

    • Restore virtual machine: Recover the backup image to the original location or to an alternate location.

    • Create instant access virtual machine: Recovers the backup image to a new instant access virtual machine. This option is available only if the backup image has instant access capability.

      See Create an instant access VM.

    • Download files and folders: Downloads the files and folders from a VM backup image. This option is available only if the backup image has instant access capability.

      See Download files and folders from a VM backup image.

    • Restore files and folders: Restores the files and folders from a VM backup image. This option is available only if the backup image has instant access capability.

      See Restore files and folders from a VM backup image.

  7. Review the Restore to values.

    The default values come from the backup image of the VM.

    • To recover to the original location, click Next.

    • To recover to an alternate location, change the restore values. Then click Next.

  8. Review or change the Options.

    See Recovery options.

  9. Review or change the Advanced options.

    See Advanced recovery options.

    See Advanced recovery options: Format of restored virtual disks.

    See Advanced recovery options: Transport mode.

  10. Click Pre-recovery check.

    NetBackup verifies the credentials and appropriate paths and connectivity, determines whether the datastore or datastore cluster has available space, and reviews, other requirements.

  11. Resolve any errors.

    You can choose to ignore the errors. However, the recovery may fail.

  12. Click Start recovery.

    Click the Restore Activity tab to monitor a job's progress. Select a specific job to view its details.