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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

Test a VM query

You can test a query that you create to preview the VMs for KVM that NetBackup discovers in the current NetBackup environment.

To test a VM query

  1. Open the KVM policy.
  2. Select the Backup selections tab.
  3. Locate and select Test query.

    The following information is displayed:

    Query

    The query criteria.

    All

    Displays the number of VMs in the NetBackup environment.

    Included

    Displays the number of VMs that match the query criteria.

    Excluded

    Displays the number of VMs that do not match the query criteria.

    Failed

    The virtual machine cannot be selected for backup because of a host name problem or other error. Also, the query cannot exclude the virtual machine.

    An explanation is included with the VM.

    List of VMs

    The names of the VMs in the NetBackup environment, based on the tab that you selected.

  4. To perform an immediate discovery to update the asset information, scroll to the bottom of the Test query modal and select Discover now.

    Note: NetBackup does not run discovery when the KVM policy runs. To reflect any new VMs in the policy, you must manually run discovery to discover those VMs.

  5. Select Close when you are finished.