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Veritas NetBackup Data Protection on VMware vCloud Director (76287)

Last Updated: 3/21/2024Categories: InformationalTotal Views: 8980Language:
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Purpose

This article provides information about data protection for VMware vCloud Director using Veritas NetBackup.

NetBackup provides highly customized protection of vCloud Director (VCD) hosted workloads such as vApps and templates and supports granular recoveries of vApp, virtual machines, template, VMDKs and individual files and folders with-in a VM from a single pass optimized backup.

Solution

Resolution

NetBackup and vCloud Director Server Configuration/Architecture

Supported Use-cases

Automatic discovery and selection of workloads across VCD servers using Organizations, Organization VDC, vApp names, template and other attributes.

Single-pass backup of VCD workload such as vApps and templates

Granular recovery from single-pass backup

vApp

vApp as template

Individual VMs (to vSphere environment)

VMDKs of a VM

VM files and folders

Operations Overview

Adding vCloud Director Server Credentials

To back up or restore virtual machines, NetBackup requires logon credentials to the VMware vCloud Director server and corresponding vCenter servers.
To add NetBackup credentials in the NetBackup Administration Console

Click Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers.

Click Actions > New > New Virtual Machine Server.

On the New Virtual Machine Server dialog, enter the name of a vCloud Director server and choose VMware vCloud Director as the Virtual Machine Server Type.

Configuring VMware vCloud Director protection in a VMware policy

Instead of manually selecting the vApps, template or VMs for backup, you can configure NetBackup to automatically select workloads based on a range of criteria. You specify the criteria (rules) in the Query Builder on the NetBackup policy Clients tab. NetBackup creates a list of the workloads that currently meet the rules and adds those to the backup. This feature is called the VMware Intelligent Policy.
vCloud Director protection can be easily enabled in a VIP policy by selecting ‘Enable vCloud Director integration’ check-box.
With the Enable vCloud Director option, the policy selects only vCloud-managed virtual machines for backup.
NetBackup collects information on the vCloud Direct environment across all configured VCD server, this information includes details of Organizations, Virtual Datacenters, and vApps. This information is used to show all possible values of a field/attribute while configuring the VIP queries.

Further details about vCloud Director policies can be found at: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21902280-136588229-0/v80002010-136588229
Best practices/notes for vCloud Director policies can be found at: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21902280-136588229-0/v76073645-136588229

Recovering vCloud Director objects

NetBackup supports following use cases around recovering vCloud Director workloads:

Restoring virtual machines into a vApp

Restoring a single virtual machine into a vApp template.

Restoring a vApp template that has multiple virtual machines.

Alternate location restores are supported to restore into an existing vApp or into a new vApp or vApp template.

Steps to recover vCloud Director workloads

1. Selecting policy type and search for virtual machine backups to recover

2. Explore the vCloud Director object hierarchies in NetBackup image catalog and choosing the required virtual machine to recover

3. Choosing different restore types

After choosing the target VM user can decide what type of restore to perform.

Normal Backup to restore specific files and folders in the VM,

Virtual Machine Backups to recover entire VM/vApp/template

Virtual Disk Restore for recovering individual VMDK files.

4. Launch Restore wizard by clicking on Restore…

Virtual Machine Recovery wizard will present vSphere and VCD details of the chosen backup image. After verifying the details, user can choose desire recovery destination. Click Next to proceed.

5. Recovery Options

Recovery process can be customized by selecting recovery host and media server to use as well as choosing a preferred transport mode . This screen is shown only if restore is back to vCloud director (See below) Click Next to proceed.

This dialog is similar to the standard Virtual Machine restore workflow.

6. Recovery vApp options

Based on the chosen recovery destination, different options are presented to the user:

1. Original location restores to vCloud: NetBackup will check existing vApps and VMs and present the user applicable options.

2. Alternate location restores to the vCloud: Allows User to choose a different VCD server, Organization and browse for an existing vApp or…

… create a new vApp/template:

In either case, restored vApp can be also captured as a template. Click Next to proceed.

3. Alternate location in vSphere: In this case VCD related options are skipped and a single screen with Recovery options (see above) and alternate Virtual Machine destination options is shown.

This dialog is similar to the standard Virtual Machine restore workflow.
Click Next to proceed.

7. Recovery Destination Options for vCloud Director

This screen appears only in ‘Alternate location restores to the vCloud’ workflow, user can see details of selected vCloud Director details and change the virtual machine restore parameters.

Click Next to proceed.

8. Recovery options

In case of ‘Alternate location in vSphere’, user can customize the virtual machine recovery by changing vCenter server, ESXi hosts, datastore, display name, etc. All fields are populated with relevant default values and support select/browse or search as applicable.

This dialog is similar to (non-VCD) Virtual Machine restore.
Click Next to proceed.

9. Virtual Machine Restore Options

Various VM customization and VMDK provisioning options are presented. Some options might be unavailable depending on what kind (original vs. alternate) restore is selected.

This dialog is similar to (non-VCD) Virtual Machine restore. Click Next to proceed.

10. Storage, Network and other recovery options

Based on selected recovery type user is presented with options to further customize storage…

...and/or network configuration

This dialog is similar to (non-VCD) Virtual Machine restore. Click Next to proceed.

11. Pre-recovery check

NetBackup does a pre-recovery check to verify/test all the recovery option selected by the user. It validates chosen vCloud Director hierarchy and objects, space requirements, connectivity, credentials and checks against some common pitfalls. Result of the pre-recovery check are presented to the user and user can start the recovery.

This process same as a standard Virtual Machine restore, certain pre-recovery checks are performed only if recovering to a vCloud Director environment.

12. Once initiated recovery progress can be monitored from Activity Monitor or from Progress log file

Additional details this recovery wizard are available at: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21902280-136588229-0/v76229433-136588229
Best practices/notes for vCloud Director restores can be found at: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21902280-136588229-0/v76049930-136588229

Related Information

Veritas NetBackup - VMware Data Protection:

https://www.veritas.com/protection/netbackup/vmware-data-protection
Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/21902280-127283730-0/index
Veritas Open eXchange - NetBackup Community:
https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/bd-p/netbackup

Known Issues

Enabling Support for VCD(VMware vCloud Director) 9.x on NetBackup 8.1.2 and below https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100045683

Support Information

Veritas support has multiple offering across the globe that can match your business needs.

Essential Support: All customers

Business Critical Support Remote Product Specialist: Designated technical support engineer

Business Critical Support Premier: Proactive support with designated support account manager

Contact:
United States
Telephone: 1 866 837 4827 or 1 512 813 2376
Business Hours: 5:00 am - 5:00 pm PST ( Monday to Friday )
Language: English
Additional information: For companies with Essential or Business Critical Service Support, phone support is always available in English 24x7.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/

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