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NetBackup™ for KVM Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (11.1)
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About NetBackup for KVM
  2. Installation and configuration overview
    1. Planning the installation for NetBackup for KVM
      1.  
        Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
      2.  
        NetBackup server and client requirements
    2.  
      NetBackup configuration overview
  3. Managing KVM hosts
    1.  
      Add KVM hosts
    2. About KVM discovery
      1.  
        Change the autodiscovery frequency of KVM assets
      2.  
        Discover KVM host assets manually
    3.  
      Browse KVM assets
    4.  
      Validate a KVM host
    5.  
      Remove a KVM host
    6.  
      Change resource limits for KVM resource types
  4. Configuring RBAC roles for KVM administrators
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the KVM administrator
    2.  
      Assigning permissions at specific KVM object levels
  5. Protecting KVM virtual machines
    1. About configuring a backup policy for KVM
      1.  
        Limitations for KVM backups
    2.  
      About automatic virtual machine selection
    3.  
      Add a policy for KVM
    4.  
      About policy attributes
    5.  
      Schedule properties
    6.  
      Add KVM hosts to a policy
    7. Configure a query to select KVM virtual machines for backup
      1.  
        Query builder reference for KVM virtual machines
      2.  
        Use Advanced mode to create a query for virtual machine selection
      3.  
        Example queries to select VMs for backup
      4.  
        Test a VM query
      5.  
        About the Reuse VM selection query results option
    8. Backup options on the KVM attributes tab
      1.  
        Optimizations options (KVM)
      2.  
        Primary VM identifier options (KVM)
      3.  
        NetBackup character restrictions for the Primary VM identifier
      4.  
        Existing snapshot handling options (KVM)
      5.  
        KVM - Advanced attributes
    9.  
      View the protection status of KVM virtual machines
    10.  
      Perform a manual backup
  6. Recovering KVM virtual machines
    1.  
      Considerations and limitations for KVM recovery
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover a KVM virtual machine
  7. Troubleshooting KVM backups and recovery
    1.  
      NetBackup logging for KVM
    2.  
      Configuring VxMS logging
    3.  
      Troubleshooting a KVM discovery or a validate operation

RBAC roles for the KVM administrator

NetBackup enables control over which users can access which KVM resources using Role Based Access Control (RBAC). You can grant RBAC access globally (to all KVM assets) or for specific KVM hosts or individual virtual machines.

The Default KVM Administrator role has access to all KVM assets (global).

Note the following:

  • If you choose to create a custom role for KVM assets, permissions can be configured only at the KVM host level or at the KVM virtual machine level.

  • To create an RBAC role, you must have the RBAC Administrator role or the permissions to create roles.

  • Contact your NetBackup administrator for assistance with creating roles.