Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
- Introduction
- Required tasks: overview
- Notes and prerequisites
- Configure NetBackup communication with VMware
- Adding NetBackup credentials for VMware
- Validating VMware virtualization server certificates in NetBackup
- Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
- VMware backup options
- Exclude Disks tab
- Configure a VMware Intelligent Policy
- Reduce the size of backups
- Back up virtual machines
- Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
- Restore virtual machines
- Restoring the full VMware virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialog boxes (restore to original location)
- Virtual Machine Recovery dialogs boxes (restore to alternate location)
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using Backup, Archive, and Restore
- Restoring VMware virtual machine disks by using NetBackup commands
- Restoring individual VMware virtual machine files
- Browse and search virtual machines for restore
- Restore virtual machines with Instant Recovery
- Use NetBackup for vCloud Director
- Virtual machine recovery dialog boxes for vCloud Director
- Best practices and more information
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix A. NetBackup commands to back up and restore virtual machines
- Using NetBackup commands to create a VMware policy
- Appendix B. Configuring services for NFS on Windows
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2012 or 2016 (NetBackup for VMware)
- About configuring services for NFS on Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 (NetBackup for VMware)
- Appendix C. The Reuse VM selection query results option
- Appendix D. Backup of VMware raw devices (RDM)
NetBackup for VMware support for SAN multi-pathing
NetBackup for VMware on Windows supports dynamic multi-pathing (DMP) between the vSphere ESXi storage and the NetBackup for VMware agent (Windows backup host). Dynamic multi-pathing can provide SAN I/O high-availability and improved backup throughput.
For NetBackup for VMware on a Linux backup host, the following items describe the support for dynamic multi-pathing in a SAN environment:
NetBackup appliance | The NetBackup appliance (beginning with the 2.6.0.2 release) supports SAN dynamic multi-pathing for VMware backups. I/O is redirected through the volume manager dynamic multi-pathing node. For more information, see the NetBackup Appliance Administrator's Guide for version 2.6.0.2 and later: |
Non-appliance Linux host | NetBackup supports backups and restores for multi-pathing under the following conditions:
Specify the whitelist and the blacklist in the following file on the backup host: /usr/openv/lib/shared/vddk/lib64/vixDiskLib.ini For more information about the whitelist and the blacklist, see the appropriate VMware documentation. For example, for Virtual Disk Development Kit 6.0 the whitelist and the blacklist function descriptions are in the VMware Virtual Disk Programming Guide. |
Note:
This support or limitation does not affect NetBackup support for VMware's Native Multipathing, which is multi-pathing between the ESXi host and storage.
This support or limitation does not affect NetBackup for VMware on Windows backup hosts. The Windows operating system has integrated multi-pathing support. The following Microsoft guide contains more information: