Introducing NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V
NetVault Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V: at a glance
Key benefits
Feature summary
Target audience
Recommended additional reading
Installing or removing the plug-in
Deploying the plug-in
Prerequisites for installing the plug-in
Prerequisite for using SMB file servers
Installing or upgrading the plug-in
Licensing the plug-in
Removing the plug-in from a standalone deployment
Configuring the plug-in
Configuring settings for a clustered deployment
Enabling communication between VMs in clustered environment
Backing up data
Backing up data: an overview
Adding patterns to use for inclusion and exclusion of VMs
Performing backups
Using backup policies
Restoring data
Restoring image-level backups
Troubleshooting
Prerequisites for image-level restore
Configuring parallel streams
Selecting data for an image-level restore
Setting image-level restore options
Finalizing and submitting an image-level restore job
Performing file-level recovery
Selecting data for a file-level restore
Setting file-level restore options
Finalizing and submitting a file-level restore job
Using other restore procedures
Configuring the plug-in
Configuring settings for a clustered deployment
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If you are using a Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016,or 2019 environment, an extra option, Show VMs being managed by a cluster, might be visible on the Plug‑in for Hyper‑V tab. This option is only available for a physical machine if the host is part of a Hyper-V Cluster.In the Navigation Pane, click Create Backup Job, and click Create New next to the Selections list. |
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Click Hyper-V Plugin, and select Configure from the context menu.In the Configure window, if you want to restore multiple VMs simultaneously, enter the maximum number of parallel streams that you want to apply to this Hyper-V host. |
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For more information about parallel streams, see Configuring parallel streams. |
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If the Show VMs being managed by a cluster option is available, select it only if the host is not managed by a Virtual Client. |
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IMPORTANT: Quest recommends that you use Virtual Clients to manage clustered hosts and that you do not enable this option. |
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Cluster Domain: Enter the Windows domain of the cluster. |
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Username: Enter the account name that has the permission and privileges required for administering the cluster and Hyper-V; that is, a domain-administrator account. |
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Password: Enter the password associated with the user specified in the preceding field. |
Enabling communication between VMs in clustered environment
cd <NetVaultBackupInstallDirectory>\util
The default installation directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest\NetVault Backup\util or the corresponding directory under C:\Program Files.
where <clientName> is the name of the next physical client that was added to the Virtual Client and <clientPassword> is the same one that you specified when you added the client to the NetVault Backup Server.
For example, if you have three hosts, run nvclientaccess -client <clientName> password <clientPassword> on Host1 with <clientName> as Host2. Run nvclientaccess -client <clientName> password <clientPassword> again on Host1 with <clientName> as Host3.