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

About restricted restore mode

The restricted restore mode option is a form of VMware agentless restore for restricted environments such as Windows User Account Control (UAC). The user-selected files are first staged to the recovery host and then restored to the virtual machine. The recovery host must have sufficient space for staging.

The default staging location on the recovery host is install_path\VERITAS\NetBackup\var\temp\staging. NetBackup creates this directory with the correct permissions the first time it is accessed. You can change the staging location with the AGENTLESS_RHOST_STAGING_PATH registry setting on the recovery host. This REG_SZ registry key does not exist by default. It must be created in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config.

If you change the staging location, Veritas recommends that you let NetBackup create the staging directory. When you let NetBackup create the directory, the permissions are set correctly. For NetBackup to create the new staging directory, the immediate parent directory must exist. If you want the restore to use E:\recovery\staging, then E:\recovery must exist. If the E:\recovery directory does not exist, the restore fails.

If you create the directory yourself, the SYSTEM, the domain administrator, and the local administrator accounts must have Full Control permissions. Additionally, Access Control Lists inherited from the parent directory are not secure and must be disabled.

Restricted restore mode supports alternate location restores. You can configure the alternate location in the NetBackup web UI.

Limitations of restricted restore mode:

  • Restricted restore mode is currently only supported on Windows. The recovery host must also be Windows.

  • The file ownership of the restored files is set to the account that was used for the NetBackup backup operation.

  • Restore of ACLs is not supported.

  • Restricted restore mode does not support renaming of targets for soft links.

  • Restricted restore mode creates new files where hard links had previously been used.

  • Irregular files such as sparse files, device files, special files, and junction points are not supported.

  • A supported version of VMware Tools must be running for the restore to succeed.

  • File path length with the directory cannot exceed 260 characters.

Performance considerations

File transport through the required infrastructure for this restore method is significantly slower than VMware agentless restores. As a result of performance concerns, Veritas recommends limiting the restore to fewer than 100 files and less than 1 GB of data.