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NetVault Plug-in for VMware 12.0 - User Guide

Table of Contents  

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

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

Restoring data

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

Common errors

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

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Restore selection tree icons

 

Table 7. Restore selection tree icons

Icon	Description
	Virtual machine
	Failed virtual machine (is displayed in a saveset for stopped job)
	Configuration file
	NVRAM file
	Virtual machine disk file
	Disk extent information file
	Log file
	Catalog file

Starting a virtual machine

After a virtual machine is restored, it is in a turned-off state. You must start it manually. When you start the virtual machine, the OS might prompt to perform an error recovery or record the reason for the unclean shutdown. Usually, you can ignore this message and select the normal boot option.

If you start a renamed virtual machine and a dialog box is displayed that asks whether you copied the virtual machine or moved it, select the I_moved it option, and close the dialog box.

Relocating a virtual machine to an alternate ESXi Server

1	Complete Step 1 through Step 4 in Restoring data.

2	Click Edit Plugin Options.

3	Depending on your VMware environment, configure the applicable options in the Plug‑in for VMware Restore Options dialog box.

•	Cluster setup: To relocate a virtual machine in a cluster setup, configure the following options on the Restore virtual machine to vCenter tab.

 

Option	Description
Recover virtual machine to vCenter	To restore a virtual machine or one or more virtual drives to the same vCenter Server or a different one, select this option.
Alternate Datastore	Specify the destination datastore name for the virtual machine. For more information about this option, see Alternate Datastore. This option is required when relocating a virtual machine. If you do not specify this job, the restore job fails.

•	Standalone ESXi Server setup: To relocate a virtual machine to a standalone ESXi Server, click the Restore virtual machine to standalone ESXi host tab, and configure the following options.

 

Option	Description
Recover virtual machine to standalone ESXi host	To restore a full virtual machine or one or more virtual drives to a standalone ESXi Server, select this option.
Alternate Datastore	Specify the destination datastore name for the virtual machine. For more information about this option, see Alternate Datastore. This option is required when relocating a virtual machine. If you do not specify this job, the restore job fails.
Address	Type the IP address or DNS name of the alternate ESXi Server host.
Port Number	If you want to use a custom port number, type it here. Otherwise, the plug-in uses 443 as the default port.
User Name	Specify a user account that can be used to log in to the ESXi Server. The user account must have privileges to register or create virtual machines
Password	Type the password for the user account.

4	Complete Step 5 through Step 11 in Restoring data.

 

NOTE: A feature introduced in vSphere 5 prevents you from restoring a virtual machine directly to an ESXi 5 host when the host is managed by a vCenter Server. To restore a virtual machine directly to the host, you must first disassociate the host from the vCenter Server. To disassociate an ESXi Server from a vCenter Server: 1 From the vSphere Client, connect directly to the ESXi 5 host. 2 In the Inventory panel, select the host. 3 In the panel on the right, click Summary. 4 Select the Disassociate host from vCenter Server check box. For more information, see the relevant vSphere documentation.

Restoring a virtual machine to an alternate vCenter Server

To restore a virtual machine to an alternate VMware vCenter Server, complete the following steps.

1	Complete Step 1 through Step 4 in Restoring data.

2	Click Edit Plugin Options.

3	Configure the applicable options in the Plug‑in for VMware Restore Options dialog box.

 

Option	Description
Alternate vCenter Address	Enter the Server Address of the alternate vCenter Server.
Port Number	If you want to use a custom port number, type it here. Otherwise, the plug-in uses 443 as the default port.
User Name	Specify a user account that can be used to log in to the vCenter Server. The user account must have privileges to register or create virtual machines
Password	Type the password for the user account.

4	Complete Step 5 through Step 11 in Restoring data.

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