NetBackup™ Web UI VMware Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)
  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 NetBackup
    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 of VMware assets
    11.  
      Discover VMware server assets manually
  4. Protecting VMs
    1.  
      Working with VMware policies in the web UI
    2. Protect VMs or intelligent VM groups
      1.  
        Protect SQL Server data with a VMware backup
    3. Edit protection settings for a VMware asset
      1.  
        Schedules
      2.  
        Backup options and Advanced options
      3.  
        Exclude disks from backups
      4.  
        Snapshot retry options
    4.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    5.  
      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. 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.  
      Configuring CDP
    7.  
      Defining the CDP gateway
    8.  
      Sizing considerations
    9.  
      Limiting concurrent CDP backup jobs
    10.  
      Controlling full sync
    11.  
      Monitoring CDP jobs
    12.  
      Using accelerators with CDP
    13.  
      Recovering CDP protected VMs
    14.  
      Some limitations of CDP
    15.  
      Troubleshooting for CDP
  8. 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
    5.  
      About restricted restore mode
  9. 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

Exclude disks from backups

Excluding virtual disks can reduce the size of the backup, but use these options carefully. They are intended only for the virtual machines that have multiple virtual disks.

Table: Options for excluding virtual disks

Exclude option

Description

All boot disks

Consider this option if you have another means of recreating the boot disk.

The virtual machine's boot disk is not included in the backup. Any other disks are backed up. Note: Data files are available in the restored data disks. However, you cannot start a virtual machine that is restored from this backup.

All data disks

Consider this option only if you have a separate protection plan that backs up the data disks.

The virtual machine's data disks are not included in the backup. Only the boot disk is backed up. Note: When the virtual machine is restored from the backup, the virtual machine data for the data disk may be missing or incomplete.

Exclude disks based on a custom attribute

Use this option to allow the VMware administrator to use a custom attribute to control which disks are excluded from backups.

The attribute must have comma-separated values of device controllers for the disks to be excluded. For example: scsi0-0,ide0-0,sata0-0,nvme0-0. The default value for this attribute is NB_DISK_EXCLUDE_DISK. Or, you can choose your own value. If you add disks to the custom attribute value between any differential backups, those disks are excluded from the next backup.

The VMware administrator must use a VMware interface to apply the attribute to the disks to exclude. See the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide or the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) Guide.

Specific disks to be excluded

Use this option to exclude a specific disk by the disk type, controller, and LUN that represent the virtual device node of the disk. Click Add to specify additional disks.

If you add controllers between any differential backups, their disks are excluded from the next backup.