NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.4)
  1. Configuring RBAC and credentials for VMware administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the VMware administrator
    2.  
      Apply RBAC role permissions for a VM to other VMs
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Malware scan
    1.  
      Assets by workload type
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Prerequisites of instant access
    2.  
      Things to consider before you use the instant access feature
    3.  
      Create an instant access VM
    4.  
      Restore files and folders from a VM backup image
    5.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    6. 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
    7.  
      VM malware scan
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. VM recovery
    1. Recover a VM
      1.  
        Storage Policy
      2.  
        Recovery options
      3.  
        Advanced recovery options
      4.  
        Advanced recovery options: Format of restored virtual disks
      5.  
        Advanced recovery options: Transport mode
    2.  
      Recover VMware Cloud Director virtual machines
  9. VMware agentless restore
    1.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    2.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    3. Provide access to a credential for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM
      1.  
        Add a credential for a VMware guest VM
      2.  
        Create a custom role for agentless single file recovery to a guest VM, with a credential
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  10. Individual file and folder restore
    1.  
      About individual file restore
    2.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of individual file and folder restore
    3.  
      Recover individual files and folders
  11. 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
  12. 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

Capacity-based licensing for CDP

Licensing collects the total number of front-end terabytes protected by NetBackup. The front-end data size for a CDP backup is nearly the same as the consumed storage size on the ESX datastore by the VMs.

The nbdeployutil utility reports data usage for the VMs. These rules are applied to report data size:

  • Calculate the total number of bytes written during backup (X) and the VM size from the ESX datastore (Y). The reported size is the smaller value of X and Y.

  • If different policies use the same virtual machine, the policy with higher data size is accounted.

  • If a VADP and CDP policies protect the same VM, then you are charged only once, with the higher size.

Administrators can use the following steps to verify the data size reported by licensing:

  • Verify the size of the VMs on the ESX datastore on the vCenter. Navigate to Datastore > Files > VM, the Size column shows the size occupied on datastore.

  • Verify the bytes written during backup for the same VM.

  • Calculate the minimum of the above two values.