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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

Validate a KVM host

You can validate a KVM host to confirm that NetBackup can connect to the KVM host and that a compatible libvrt version is installed. You may also need to validate a host in the following situations:

  • The KVM host was disconnected (for example, for maintenance).

  • The NetBackup server or client software was upgraded on the KVM host.

  • A new libvirt version was installed on the KVM host.

To validate a KVM host

  1. On the left, select Workloads > KVM, then select the Hosts tab.
  2. In the right pane, locate the KVM host.
  3. Select Actions > Validate.