netbackup 7.0 backup the vm vcentre and vsphere 4.1
Created: 03 Mar 2011 | 3 comments
Hi expert,
I am a new face on Netbackup. Having the questions on the netbackup and vm. Hope getting some ideas. Thanks.
I am going to backup the VM (vcentre and vsphere 4.1) guess os from the netbackup 7.0.
how can I start, any suggestions? Using VCB or not?
Here I have configured a netbackup master and media server in the same unit running the XP for the testing environment.
the backup source is a vcentre, or may be directly backup the host's guest OS.
Do I need to install anything on the vcentre?
Or do I need to configure anything in netbackup?
because the "validate credential failed" and asked me to have a proxy server when I added the vcentre's IP in the virtual machine server in the Credential.
Cheers
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First of all , you need NBU
First of all , you need NBU 7.0.1 for vshpere 4.1 support: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH135812
New Proliferations in NetBackup 7.0.1 include:
VMware vSphere 4.1 - Support the latest release of VMware vSphere
Steps to configure VM backups are listed in in this manual:
NetBackup for VMware Guide http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127072
See p. 13: vStorage vs VCB
p.14: NetBackup for VMware components
p.16: Overview of the backup process
p17 : NetBackup for VMware license requirement
p.17: NetBackup for VMware configuration tasks
p.18: NetBackup tasks
Supporting Storage Foundation and VCS on Unix and Windows as well as NetBackup on Unix and Windows.
Handy NBU links
Whatever you do, do not use
Whatever you do, do not use VCB. You've got vSphere and NetBackup 7, there's no reason not to use vStorage API backups, and it's much easier to work with.
Nothing needs to be installed in vCenter, or any of the guest VMs to perform backups. However, to perform file-level restores, you'll need to install the client inside the guest VMs so that NetBackup has a way to insert those files back in to the filesystem.
You need to license the NetBackup Enterprise Client for each physical host you have, then configure a Windows server (ideally, a Media Server, but it doesn't have to be) to communicate to the vSphere infrastructure, then configure credentials that have rights in vCenter to perform the snapshots of the guests and pull the backups out.
You can choose to either pull them across the network (NetBackup calls this nbd), or, if it's a block-level datastore, you can set up your SAN for that LUN/volume/whatever to be presented to that Windows server configured above to pull the VM files directly off the SAN and bypass your network.
That's it in a nutshell. :)
VMware backups via the SAN can be DANGEROUS
See my comments in https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/net...
If you don't do it correctly you can kiss all your production goodbye even before you have run a backup.
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