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NetVault Plug-in for VMware 12.1 - User Guide

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Introducing NetVault Backup Plug-in for VMware

About NetVault Backup Plug-in for VMware

Key benefits Feature summary

Target audience Recommended additional reading

Installing the plug-in

About plug-in editions Deployment overview Prerequisites Installing the plug-in Removing the plug-in

Configuring the plug-in

Adding a server Reconfiguring a server Removing a server Supported transport modes Configuring default settings Enabling the Distributed Jobs feature for load balancing Enabling or disabling CBT on virtual machines

About CBT Enabling CBT on individual virtual machines Disabling CBT on a virtual machine Manually disabling CBT on a virtual machine

Enabling or disabling quiescing of virtual machines

About quiescing virtual machines Enabling quiescing of virtual machines Disabling quiescing of virtual machines Removing backup preferences for a virtual machine

Unlocking a virtual machine

Defining a backup strategy

About backup methods and types Data backed up and restored for different disk types

RDM disks

Backup and recovery strategy

Using the image-level backup method

Adding patterns to use for inclusion and exclusion of VMs Performing image-level backups

Additional notes Backup selection tree icons

Restarting a backup job Resetting CBT on a virtual machine Monitoring job progress

Using the file-level backup method

Performing file-level backups

Backup selection tree icons

Removing the snapshot and mount folder manually

Restoring image-level backups

About restoring image-level backups Restoring a full virtual machine or individual virtual drives

Prerequisites Restoring data

Important notes Restore selection tree icons

Starting a virtual machine

Relocating a virtual machine to an alternate ESXi Server Restoring a virtual machine to an alternate vCenter Server Renaming a virtual machine during restore Performing file-level restores from image-level backups

Restore selection tree icons

Restoring virtual machine disk and configuration files

Restore selection tree icons

Recovering a virtual machine from the restored files

Searching for files in savesets Viewing media list

Restoring file-level backups

About restoring file-level backups Restoring file-level backups using shared network drives

Setting up a network share Restoring data

Restoring file-level backups using the native Plug-in for FileSystem

Prerequisites Restoring data

Searching for files in savesets Viewing media list

Troubleshooting

NetVault Backup Service fails to start on Windows NetVault Backup Service fails to start after the machine is restarted NetVault Backup Service starts, but stops immediately on Linux Linux Hybrid version of the plug-in does not run on 64-bit OS Crash occurs during a backup CBT-based image-level backup fails SAN transport reports errors when multiple backups access the same datastore Default SCSI controller type on RHEL 7 and RHEL 6 File-level backups do not back up data for a reparse point Restore job fails when using SAN transport Restore job fails to add a virtual machine to the server inventory Disk type is always Thick Provision Eager Zeroed after restoring an image-level backup Backup jobs of virtual machines protected by vSphere FT fail intermittently

Diagnosing virtual machine issues SOAP messages Generating VDDK logs Third-party contributions

Target audience

This guide is intended for users who are responsible for the backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines. Familiarity with VMware vCenter and VMware ESXi Server administration and the operating system (OS) under which the virtual machines are running is assumed. Advanced knowledge of VMware would be useful for defining an efficient backup and recovery strategy for the virtual machines.

Recommended additional reading

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NetVault Backup documentation:

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Quest NetVault Backup Installation Guide: This guide provides information about installing the NetVault Backup Server and Client software.

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Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide: This guide provides information about configuring and using NetVault Backup to protect your data. It provides comprehensive information about all NetVault Backup features and functionality.

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Quest NetVault Backup Command Line Interface Reference Guide: This guide provides information about using the NetVault Backup command-line utilities.

You can download the complete set of NetVault Backup documentation from https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.

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VMware documentation: You can download the complete set of VMware documentation from http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs. For updated platform-support and vSAN-related information, see the VMware VDDK Release Notes.

Installing the plug-in

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About plug-in editions

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Deployment overview

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Installing the plug-in

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Removing the plug-in

About plug-in editions

The Plug‑in for VMware is available in two editions:

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ESXi Server Edition: The ESXi Server Edition allows you to add one or more standalone VMware ESXi Servers to protect all virtual machines hosted by these servers. You can deploy this edition on any Windows- or Linux-based NetVault Backup Client. The number of ESXi Servers that you can add to the client depends on the capacity specified in the purchased license.

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Enterprise Edition: The Enterprise Edition allows you to add multiple VMware ESXi or VMware vCenter Servers to protect all virtual machines hosted or managed by these servers. You can deploy this edition on any Windows- or Linux-based NetVault Backup Client. You can add any number of ESXi or vCenter Servers to a client that runs the Enterprise Edition of the plug‑in.

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