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

Frequently asked questions

Here are some frequently asked questions for instant access Build Your Own (BYO).

Table: Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked question

Answer

How can I enable instant access file browsing (for file download and restore) on BYO after the storage is configured or upgraded without the docker/podman installed?

Perform the steps in the following order:

  1. Install the required docker/podman version.

  2. Start using the Instant Access feature.

    For example, you can download files, restore files, and so on.

How can I enable the VMware instant access feature on BYO after storage is configured or upgraded without the nginx service installed?

Perform the steps in the following order:

  1. Install the required nginx service version.

  2. Ensure that the new BYO nginx configuration entry: /etc/nginx/conf.d/byo.conf is part of the HTTP section of the original: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file.

  3. Run the command: /usr/openv/pdde/vpfs/bin/vpfs_config.sh --configure_byo

How can I resolve the following issue in the vpfs-config.log file that is raised from: Verifying that the MSDP REST API is available via https on port 10087

Perform the steps in the following order:

  1. Install the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages through yum tool.

  2. Add the following rules that SELinux requires for Nginx to bind on the 10087 port.

    • semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10087

    • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

  3. Run the following command: /usr/openv/pdde/vpfs/bin/vpfs_config.sh --configure_byo

Instant Access for BYO uses a self-signed certificate by default and only supports *.pem external certificate.

How do I replace it with a certificate signed by external CA (*.pem certificate), if required?

To configure the external certificate, perform the following steps. If the new certificate is already generated (the certificate must contain long and short host names for the media server), go to step 4.

  1. Create the RSA public or private key pair.

  2. Create a certificate signing request (CSR).

    The certificate must contain long and short host names for the media server.

  3. The External Certificate Authority creates the certificate.

  4. Replace <PDDE Storage Path>/spws/var/keys/spws.cert with the certificate and replace <PDDE Storage Path>/spws/var/keys/spws.key with the private key.

  5. Run the following command to reload the certificate:

    /usr/openv/pdde/vpfs/bin/vpfs_config.sh --configure_byo

How can I disable media automount for the instant access livemount share in gnome?

If the automount is enabled, the source folder is mounted from the livemount share in gnome and smaller disks appear. In this scenario, the instant access feature does not work properly.

The mounted disk content source is from the .../meta_bdev_dir/... folder under livemount share, while the mount target is in the /run/media/... folder.

Follow the guideline to disable the gnome automount:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/20107

How can I resolve the following issue in the /var/log/vpfs/vpfs-config.log file?

**** Asking the 
NetBackup Webservice to trust 
the MSDP webserver (spws) ****
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nblibcurlcmd 
failed (1):

Perform the steps in the following order:

  1. Ensure that your NetBackup primary server is up and there is no firewall blocking the connection between the NetBackup primary server and storage server.

  2. Run the following command on storage server to verify the connection status:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpclntcmd -pn

  3. After the NetBackup primary server is up and connection between the NetBackup primary server and storage server is allowed, run the following command:

    /usr/openv/pdde/vpfs/bin/vpfs_config.sh --configure_byo