Introducing NetVault Plug-in for VMware
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 or disabling CBT on virtual machines
Defining a backup strategy
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
About backup methods and types
Data backed up and restored for different disk types
Backup and recovery strategy
Using the image-level backup method
Adding patterns to use for inclusion and exclusion of virtual machines
Understanding the Distributed Jobs feature
Performing image-level backups
Continuous data protection backups
Performing continuous backups
Restarting a backup job
Resetting CBT on a virtual machine
Monitoring job progress
Using the file-level backup method
Performing file-level backups
Performing file-level continuous backups
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
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
Recovering a virtual machine using Instant Restore
Restoring virtual machine disk and configuration 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
Restoring file-level backups using the built-in Plug-in for FileSystem
Searching for files in savesets
Viewing media list
Troubleshooting
Common errors
NetVault Service fails to start on Windows
NetVault Service fails to start after the machine is restarted
NetVault 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 or to the alternate standalone ESXi Server
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
RDM disks are restored to VMDK files
Unable to consolidate image-level backups
Restore job fails on Linux when file size exceeds 50 MB
Web Service process displays message that indicates the server is unavailable
Installing an update puts the VMware Vstor2 MntApi driver into an inconsistent state
Backing up and restoring encrypted disks
Backing up a cloned virtual machine that has the same UUID
Backing up virtual machines that are protected by vSphere FT
Error using VVols with a storage array
Backup proxy opens in NBD mode instead of HotAdd transport mode
Diagnosing virtual machine issues
SOAP messages
Generating VDDK logs
Restoring image-level backups
About restoring image-level backups
The image-level backups can be used to perform the following types of restores:
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Recover a full virtual machine or specific virtual drives: You can use image-level backups to recover a full virtual machine to a previous known state or to restore one or more virtual drives for a virtual machine. This method is useful when there is data loss due to hardware failure, data corruption, or accidental deletion of virtual machine disk files. The virtual machine can be restored to the same or an alternate VMware ESXi Server Host or VMware vCenter Server. |
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Restore individual files and directories: You can use image-level backups to restore individual files and folders. This method is useful when there is data loss due to user errors, data corruption, or accidental deletion of files. The individual files and directories can be restored to a specified directory on the NetVault Client. |
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NOTE: To use an image-level backup for file-level restores, you must select the Perform File Level Indexing check box during backup. File-level indexing is disabled by default. |
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Windows: NTFS |
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Linux and UNIX: EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS v2, XFS v3 |
The Plug‑in for VMware also supports volumes managed by Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux-based systems and Logical Disk Manager (LDM) on Windows-based systems as single or spanned disks.
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Restore virtual machine disk and configuration files: You can use the image-level backups to restore the virtual machine disk and configuration files to a specified directory on the NetVault Client. With these restored files, you can then recover a virtual machine with the same or modified settings using Virtual Infrastructure Client or any other utility that lets you create a virtual machine using existing “.vmdk” files. |
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Instant restore with continuous data protection (CDP) and QoreStor: If you use CDP for your VMware backups and QoreStor for your repository, you can recover data using the instant restore feature. QoreStor leverages remote database access (RDA) protocol and Linux network file sharing (NFS) to act as a temporary datastore to which NetVault mounts a backed-up image of a VMware virtual machine (VM), making the VM available in a matter of seconds. From here, you can confirm that the image contains all of the desired data and then migrate it to a vCenter host. For more information, see the NetVault Administrator's Guide and the QoreStor User Guide. |
Restoring a full virtual machine or individual virtual drives
Prerequisites
Before you start the restore procedure, verify that the following requirements are met:
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Start the diskpart utility, and list the disks: |
Select disk <X>
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If the read-only attribute is set to Yes, type: |