NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.2)
Platform: Linux,UNIX,Windows
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web user interface
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
  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.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
    10.  
      VMWARE_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers
  3. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
    2. Custom protection settings for an asset
      1.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      2.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    4.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  4. VM recovery and 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.  
      Recover a VM
    6.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    7.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    8.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
  5. Troubleshooting VM recovery
    1.  
      Errors encountered when adding VMware servers
    2.  
      Errors encountered when browsing VMware servers
    3.  
      Errors encountered when you review Status for a newly discovered VM
    4.  
      Error encountered when downloading files from an instant access VM
    5.  
      Troubleshooting issues with backups and restores of excluded virtual disks
    6.  
      Restore fails for a virtual machine with multiple datastores
    7.  
      Errors encountered when you change the recovery destination

Custom protection settings for an asset

When a plan allows customization, the workload administrator can select the protection method Custom protection. This user can then change schedules, storage, and other options for their assets, depending on the workload type. The asset maintains its own individual protection and any future changes of the protection plan are not applied to the asset.

More details are available for protection settings:

NetBackup Web UI Backup Administator's Guide

 

Custom protection options

Custom protection lets the user adjust the following options:

Option

Description

Schedules and retention

Users can add, edit, or delete schedules. Users can select the schedule type, how often it runs, and how long to keep the backup for this custom protection. The available options depend on workload type of the asset.

Storage

Users can select the storage to use for custom protection.

Server or host to use for backups

The host that performs backups on behalf of the virtual machines. Users can choose Automatic to have NetBackup pick the media server, based on the storage unit. Or, the user can select another host from the list. These hosts are other media servers in the environment or hosts that are configured as an access host.

 

Additional custom protection options

Option

Description

If a snapshot exists, perform the following action

Specifies the action that NetBackup takes when a snapshot is discovered before NetBackup creates a new snapshot for the virtual machine backup. For example, users can choose to stop a backup if any snapshots exist. If snapshots are not automatically deleted, the performance of the virtual machine may eventually decline. Undeleted snapshots can cause restore failures due to lack of disk space.

Exclude selected virtual disks from backups

Specifies the virtual disks to exclude from backups.

See Exclude disks from backups.

Allow the restore of application data from virtual machine backups

This option allows users to restore application data from full backups of the virtual machine.

Note that in NetBackup 8.2, application data for Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SharePoint Server must be restored with the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore interface. Data for Microsoft SQL Server must be restored with the NetBackup MS SQL Client. See the documentation for your NetBackup database agent for more details.

Enable virtual machine quiesce

By default, I/O on the virtual machine is quiesced before NetBackup creates the snapshot. In the majority of cases, you should use this default. Without quiescing file activity, data consistency in the snapshot cannot be guaranteed. If you disable the quiesce, you must analyze the backup data for consistency.

Transport mode

Specifies the transport mode to use for backups or how to read the data from the datastore. For more information on transport modes, see the vendor documentation for your virtualization environment.

Snapshot retry options

See Snapshot retry options.