NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide
- Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
- 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
- VMware agentless restore
- Individual file and folder restore
- 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
This type of restore requires that you provide the credentials for the guest VM. Or, that you have access to the credential that is saved in NetBackup credential management. Contact your NetBackup administrator for details.
To restore VMware files and folders using agentless restore
- Confirm that the target machine 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 Recover > Restore files and folders.
- On the Add files page, click Add and select the files and folders you want recover. 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.
- Select the agentless recovery type and specify the target machine to which you want the files and folders recovered.
- Enter the credentials for the target guest VM. Or, click Select existing credentials to select the credential you want to use.
- Click Next.
- On the Recovery options page, specify additional recovery options for the restored files and folders. Click Next.
NetBackup performs a pre-recovery check using the options you specified.
- On the Review page, review 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.