NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide
- Managing VMware servers
- Add VMware servers
- Validate and update VMware server credentials
- Browse VMware servers
- Remove VMware servers
- Create an intelligent VM group
- Remove an intelligent VM group
- Add a VMware access host
- Remove a VMware access host
- Change resource limits for VMware resource types
- About VMware discovery
- Change the autodiscovery frequency of VMware assets
- Discover VMware server assets manually
- Protecting VMs
- Malware scan
- Instant access
- Instant rollback
- Continuous data protection
- CDP terminology
- CDP architecture
- About continuous data protection
- Prerequisites
- Capacity-based licensing for CDP
- Steps to configure CDP
- Removing VMs from the CDP gateway
- Defining the CDP gateway
- Sizing considerations
- Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
- Controlling full sync
- Monitoring CDP jobs
- Using accelerators with CDP
- Recovering CDP protected VMs
- Some limitations of CDP
- Troubleshooting for CDP
- VM recovery
- Protecting VMs using hardware snapshot and replication
- About virtual machines and hardware snapshots
- Deployment and architecture
- Features and applications supported
- Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
- Operations supported with hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshot
- Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication
- Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
- Notes and limitations
- Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations
- Troubleshooting VMware operations
Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
VMware agentless restore lets you restore individual files and folders to virtual machines where the NetBackup client is not installed. If instant access is configured, you also have the option to restore with instant access.
The restore requires that you provide the credentials for the guest VM. Contact your NetBackup administrator for details.
To restore VMware files and folders using agentless restore
- Confirm the target VM is powered on.
- On the left, click Workloads > VMware.
- Locate and click on the VM that contains the files and folders for restore.
- Click the Recovery points tab. In the calendar view, click the date on which the backup occurred.
The available images are listed in rows with the backup timestamp for each image.
- On the image you want to recover from, click Restore files and folders.
- Specify the files and folders you want recovered. Then click Next.
If you do not see the correct directory structure, click Switch to instant access. Note that instant access must be supported for the recovery point. If you still do not see the expected files and folders, start over and select a different recovery point.
See Create an instant access VM.
After you switch to instant access, all selected files are removed and all recovery options are reset. A new recovery begins of files and folders using instant access. If you want to switch back to agentless single file recovery again, you need to cancel the recovery wizard and restart.
- Specify the target VM to which you want the files and folders recovered, as well as the administrator credentials for the target VM. Click Next.
- Click Next.
- Specify additional recovery options for the restored files and folders. Click Next.
NetBackup performs a pre-recovery check using the options you specified.
- Review displays the status of the pre-recovery check along with the options you selected for the recovery. Once you confirm that they are correct, click Start recovery.