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NetVault Plug-in for VMware 11.1 - Release Notes

Product licensing

To obtain the license key for your NetVault Backup Server environment, you must first provide the NetVault Machine ID of your main NetVault Backup Server along with the machine IDs of clients running any licensed plug‑in.

You can use the NetVault Configuration Wizard to install the product license keys. Alternatively, you can install the license keys from the Manage Clients page.

To obtain the machine ID for a NetVault Backup machine
1
Start the NetVault WebUI, and in the Navigation pane, click Manage Clients.
2
In the NetVault Backup Clients table, select the client, and click Manage.
3
On the View Clients page, note the machine ID exactly as it appears in the Client Summary table.
To install the license keys using the NetVault Configuration Wizard
1
In the Navigation pane, click Guided Configuration, and then on the NetVault Configuration Wizard page, click Install Licenses.
2
In the NetVault Backup Clients table, select the client on which you want to install the license key, and click Next.
3
In the Enter the license key string box, type or copy and paste the license key, and click Apply.
After the key is applied successfully, a message is displayed.
To install the license keys from the Manage Clients page
1
In the Navigation pane, click Manage Clients.
2
In the NetVault Backup Clients table, select the client on which you want to install the license key, and click Manage.
3
On the View Clients page, click Install License.
4
In the Install License dialog box, type or copy and paste the license key, and click Apply.
After the key is installed successfully, a message is displayed. Click the Close button to close the dialog box.

Upgrade and installation instructions

The standard method for upgrading the plug-in is to install the latest version over the previous version of the plug-in.

To use the plug-in for file-level backup operations, complete the following tasks in the given order:

 
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NOTE: These steps are only required when upgrading the hybrid version of the plug-in on Windows.
1
Verify that no virtual machine is mounted for a file-level browse or backup operation. If any virtual is mounted in a browse session, unmount it, or if it is mounted for a backup, wait until the backup completes.
2
From the NetVault Backup Process Viewer, check if any instance of “NetVault VM mount daemon” or “NetVault VM mount CLI” is running on the client. Alternatively, use the Windows Task Manager to see if any instance of nvvmwmount.exe is running. If yes, restart the NetVault Backup Service.
3
Verify that the Working Directory configured for the plug-in does not contain any subfolders named after the display names of virtual machines. If the directory includes any mount folder, manually remove the folder. For more information, see the user’s guide. If you fail to complete the cleanup routine, a subsequent mount operation fails with the error “A stale mount was found.”
4
VDDK uses a kernel-mode driver for mounting a virtual machine during file-level backup and browse operations. The Plug‑in for VMware automatically starts a service for the driver when you install the plug-in, but it does not check if the service is running when you perform an upgrade or a reinstallation.
If this service is not running on the client, the plug-in fails to complete the mount request and reports the error “Driver not found.”
To make sure that this error does not occur, follow the steps outlined in the Upgrade procedure section.
Upgrade procedure
To upgrade the hybrid version of the plug-in on Windows
1
Open a command prompt window.
2
Stop the service, if it is running:
sc stop vstor2-mntapi20-shared
3
Delete the service:
sc delete vstor2-mntapi20-shared
4
Verify that the service has been deleted:
sc query vstor2-mntapi20-shared
If the service is stuck in a “stopping” state, restart the machine.
5
Install the plug-in.

For information about installing the plug-in, see the Dell NetVault Backup Plug-in for VMware User’s Guide.

More resources

Additional information is available from the following:

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Online product documentation
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NetVault community

Globalization

This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release supports any single-byte or multi-byte character set. It supports simultaneous operation with multilingual data. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, and Japan.

The release is localized to the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, and Korean.

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