Browse for VMware Virtual Machines screen
| Article:HOWTO44451 | | | Created: 2011-03-15 | | | Updated: 2011-03-22 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO44451 |
When you configure a NetBackup for VMware policy, you can use the Browse for Virtual Machines screen to select VMware virtual machines for backup. You can enter the virtual machine's host name manually or browse and select from a list.
As an alternative, NetBackup can automatically select virtual machines based on a range of criteria.
See About automatic virtual machine selection for NetBackup for VMware.
Click this option if you want to manually enter the name of a virtual machine. The format of the name depends on your system. It may be the fully qualified name or another name, depending on your network configuration and how the name is defined in the guest OS. If NetBackup cannot find the name you enter, policy validation fails.
Click this option to discover vCenter servers, clusters, datacenters, vApps, and ESX servers (shown in the left pane). You can select virtual machines from a list (in the right pane).
NetBackup uses the following icons for vSphere objects:
The virtual machines that are contained in a VMware vApp are displayed in the right pane along with other virtual machines.
The virtual machine names that are listed may be derived from a cache file. Use of the cache file is faster than rediscovering the virtual machines on the network if your site has a large number of virtual machines.
If NetBackup cannot obtain the IP address of the virtual machine, the host name and IP address are displayed as NONE.
Note that virtual machine host names or display names must be unique within a master server's policies:
To update the cache file and re-display virtual machines, click the refresh icon to the right of the Last Update field. This field shows the date and time of the most recent cache file that contains the names of virtual machines.
For NetBackup to access the virtual machines, note the following:
For older virtual machines, VMware VCB must be installed on the VMware backup host.
The NetBackup master server must have credentials for the VMware VirtualCenter or ESX server(s).
DNS problems may prevent or slow down discovery of the virtual machines.
To limit the search to particular vCenter or ESX servers, you can create a BACKUP registry entry as an exclude list. Excluding unneeded servers can dramatically speed up the search for virtual machines.
The browsing timeout value must not be set too low.
See Changing the browsing timeout for virtual machine discovery
VM Host Name, Display Name, UUID, etc.
When you select an ESX server in the left pane, information about its virtual machines appears in columns in the right pane. You can change the settings and arrangement of these columns by right-clicking on any of the column headers.
The columns are the following:
The virtual machines you selected are listed in the Clients tab.
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