NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (9.0.0.1, 9.0)
  1. Introducing the NetBackup web user interface
    1.  
      About the NetBackup web UI
    2.  
      Terminology
    3.  
      Sign in to the NetBackup web UI
    4.  
      Sign out of the NetBackup web UI
  2. Monitoring and notifications
    1.  
      The NetBackup dashboard
    2.  
      Monitoring jobs
    3.  
      Filter jobs in the job list
  3. 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.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
    12.  
      VMWARE_AUTODISCOVERY_INTERVAL option for NetBackup servers
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
    2. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules and retention
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    3.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    4.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  5. 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. 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
  6. VM recovery
    1.  
      Recover a VM
    2.  
      About VMware agentless restore
    3.  
      Prerequisites and limitations of VMware agentless restores
    4.  
      Recover files and folders with VMware agentless restore
  7. 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
    7.  
      Errors when you change the recovery destination

Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups

Use the following procedure to subscribe an asset (VMs or intelligent VM groups) to a protection plan. When you subscribe an asset to a protection plan, you assign predefined backup settings to the asset.

Note:

The RBAC role that is assigned to you must give you access to the assets that you want to manage and to the protection plans that you want to use.

To protect VMs or VM groups

  1. On the left, click VMware.
  2. On the Virtual machines tab or Intelligent VM groups tab, click the box for the VM or the VM group and click Add protection.
  3. Select a protection plan and click Next.
  4. If you have the necessary role permissions you can adjust one or more of the following settings:

    • Schedules and retention

      Change when backups occur and the backup start window.

    • Backup options

      Adjust the server or host to use for backups, snapshot options, and exclude options.

    • Advanced options

      Change or enable any advanced options for the protection plan.

  5. Click Protect.

    The results of your choices appear under Virtual machines or Intelligent VM groups.