NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (11.0)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Overview of configuring and protecting AHV assets in the NetBackup web UI
  2. RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
    1.  
      RBAC roles for the Nutanix AHV administrator
    2.  
      Assign both the Default VMware Administrator and Default AHV Administrator roles to a user
    3.  
      Create a custom role for all Nutanix AHV permissions and additional VMware asset permissions
    4.  
      Create a custom role for all VMware permissions and additional Nutanix AHV asset permissions
  3. Managing AHV clusters
    1.  
      Quick configuration checklist to protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Configure secure communication between the AHV cluster and NetBackup host and Nutanix Prism Central and NetBackup host
    3.  
      Enable the iSCSI initiator service on windows backup host
    4.  
      Install the iSCSI initiator package on Linux backup host
    5.  
      Migrate Java GUI/CLI added clusters into the web UI
    6.  
      Prerequisites to configure Nutanix AHV cluster
    7.  
      About support for Nutanix segmented iSCSI network
    8.  
      Configure CHAP settings for iSCSI secure communication with AHV clusters
    9.  
      About the ports that NetBackup uses to communicate with AHV
    10.  
      Add or browse an AHV cluster
    11.  
      Remove AHV Clusters
    12.  
      Add a new Nutanix Prism Central
    13.  
      Add new Prism Central server credentials
    14.  
      Remove Nutanix Prism Central
    15.  
      Create an intelligent VM group
    16.  
      Assign permissions to the intelligent VM group
    17.  
      Update the intelligent VM group
    18.  
      Remove the intelligent VM group
    19.  
      Set CHAP for iSCSI
    20.  
      Add an AHV access host
    21.  
      Remove an AHV access host
    22.  
      Change resource limits for AHV resource types
    23.  
      Change the autodiscovery frequency of AHV assets
    24. Scan for malware
      1.  
        Scanning backup images
      2.  
        Assets by workload type
  4. Managing credentials
    1. Managing AHV cluster credentials
      1.  
        Add new cluster credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate AHV cluster credentials
    2. Managing Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      1.  
        Add new Nutanix Prism Central credentials
      2.  
        Update and validate Nutanix Prism Central credentials
    3.  
      View the credential name that is applied to an asset
    4.  
      Edit or delete a named credential
  5. Instant access
    1.  
      Things to consider and limitations before you use the instant access feature
    2.  
      Download files and folders from a VM backup image
    3. 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. Protecting AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to know before you protect AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Protect AHV VMs or intelligent VM groups using Protection plan
    3.  
      Backup AHV VMs or intelligent groups using Policy
    4.  
      Protect AHV VMs within VPC
    5.  
      Customize protection settings for an AHV asset
    6.  
      Modify policy for an AHV asset
    7.  
      Schedules and retention
    8.  
      Backup options
    9.  
      Prerequisite to Enable virtual machine quiescing
    10.  
      Remove protection from VMs or intelligent VM groups
    11.  
      View the protection status of VMs or intelligent VM groups
  7. Recovering AHV virtual machines
    1.  
      Things to consider before you recover the AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      About the pre-recovery check
    3.  
      Recover an AHV virtual machine
    4.  
      Recover an AHV VM within VPC
    5.  
      About Nutanix AHV agentless files and folders restore
    6.  
      Prerequisites for agentless files and folder recovery
    7.  
      SSH key fingerprint
    8.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agentless restore
    9.  
      Recovery target options
    10.  
      Pre-recovery checks for Nutanix AHV
    11.  
      About Nutanix-AHV agent-based files and folders restore
    12.  
      Prerequisites for agent-based files and folder recovery
    13.  
      Recover files and folders with Nutanix AHV agent based restore
    14.  
      Limitations
  8. Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
    1.  
      Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS
    2.  
      Protecting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure
  9. Troubleshooting AHV operations
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for NetBackup for AHV
    2.  
      Error during AHV credential addition
    3.  
      Error during the AHV virtual machines discovery phase
    4.  
      Errors for the Status for a newly discovered VM
    5.  
      Error run into while backing up AHV virtual machines
    6.  
      Error while restoring AHV virtual machines
  10. API and command line options for AHV
    1.  
      Using APIs and command line options to manage, protect, or recover AHV virtual machines
    2.  
      Additional NetBackup options for AHV configuration
    3.  
      Additional information about the rename file

Prerequisites of Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO)

Prerequisites (fresh install and upgrade):

  • The BYO storage server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and later, same as the NetBackup Appliance operating system version.

  • The BYO storage server with docker/podman installed.

    • The docker/podman version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (RHEL extra).

    • The docker/podman application is included in the environment path.

  • The BYO storage server with NFS service installed.

  • The BYO storage server with NGINX version installed.

    • The NGINX version must be same as the one in the corresponding official RHEL version release. You need to install it from the corresponding RHEL yum source (epel).

    • Ensure that the policycoreutils and policycoreutils-python packages are installed from the same RHEL yum source (RHEL server) and then run the following commands:

      • semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10087

      • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

    • Ensure that the /mnt folder on the storage server is not mounted by any mount points directly. Mount points should be mounted to its subfolders.

    • Enable the logrotate permission in selinux using the following command:

      semanage permissive -a logrotate_t

  • For BYO, docker/podman container is used to browse VMDK files. Data related to the container is stored at the following location: /var/lib/ and requires minimum 20 GB free space.