NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Configuring RBAC roles for VMware administrators
- Notes and prerequisites
- VMware vSphere privileges
- Managing VMware servers
- About VMware discovery
- Add VMware servers
- Change resource limits for VMware resource types
- Configuring backup policies for VMware
- Backup options on the VMware tab
- Exclude disks tab
- Configuring a VMware Intelligent Policy
- About the Reuse VM selection query results option
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Configuring protection plans for VMware
- Malware scan
- Instant access
- Instant rollback
- Continuous data protection
- Backing up virtual machines
- VM recovery
- VMware agentless restore
- Restoring Individual files and folders from VMware backups
- Using NetBackup to back up Cloud Director environments
- Recover VMware Cloud Director virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Protecting VMs using hardware snapshots and replication
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting VMware operations
- NetBackup logging for VMware
- Snapshot error encountered (status code 156)
- Appendix A. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix B. Backups of VMware raw devices (RDM)
Assets by workload type
This section describes the procedure for scanning VMware VM assets for malware.
This section describes the procedure for scanning VMware, Universal shares, Kubernetes, Nutanix and Cloud VM assets for malware.
To scan the supported assets for malware, perform the following:
- On left, select the supported workload under Workloads.
- Select the resource which has backups completed.
For example, VMware, Universal shares, Kubernetes, Nutanix and Cloud VM
For example, VMware
For example, Nutanix AHV
- Select Actions > Scan for malware.
- On the Malware scan page, perform the following:
Select the date range for the scan by selecting Start date/time and End date/time.
Select Scanner host pool
From the Current infection status list select one of the following:
Not scanned
Not infected
Infection detected by malware scan
Infection detected by file hash search
All
- Click Scan for malware.
Note:
The malware scanner host can initiate a scan of three images at the same time.
- After the scan starts, you can see the Scan status on Malware detection, the following fields are visible:
Not scanned
Not infected
Infected
Failed
Note:
Any backup images that fail validation are ignored.
In progress
Pending