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NetBackup 7.5 for VMware: Hands-On Lab (Advanced) Description
This lab is designed for people
that already know and/or use a
previous
version of NetBackup for VMware.
The lab will provide you
direct, hands on experience with
some of the latest NetBackup
7.5 for VMware data protection
features and will go beyond the
basic lab. Features that will
be highlighted include the use
of the VMware Custom Field in
the Policy, how the backup
status is propagated back into
vCenter through Events, how you
setup and configure Media Server
Load Balancing for VMware to
further speed up the backup
process.
This lab assumes a some
familiarity with NetBackup for VMware
Version 7.1 and will mainly
focus on useful enhancements in
Version 7.5.
The Basic Lab is available for
you if you are completely new
to NetBackup for VMware. Though
it is not needed that you
first complete the Base Lab.
At the end of this lab, you should be able to
§ Understand how the VMadmin and
you can interoperate dynamicly
whether a VM should be included
or excluded for backup through
the use of VMware Custom
Fields.
§ Understand how you can propagate
backup stats about success and
failure from NetBackup back into
vCenter so that the VMadmin has
the data availabe in his native
interface.
§ Understand how Media Server Load
Balancing for VMware works and
the positive effects it has on
overall job throughput performance.
§ Understand how you can exclude
Boot or Data Disks from the
backup.
Notes § This is a self-‐paced lab.
Feel free to proceed with
this lab at your own
speed.
§ If you have any questions or
problems with the lab, instructors
are available and can provide
immediate assistance. Simply raise
your hand if you need
assistance.
§ Thank you for attending our lab
session.
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Lab Agenda:
Lab Exercise 1: Prepare the
NetBackup for VMware lab environment
for the Advanced Lab 5 Minutes
Lab Exercise 2: Virtual Machine
Intelligent Policy (VIP) query
knowledge 10 Minutes
Lab Exercise 3: Interaction between
vSphere and NetBackup through custom
fields 15 Minutes
Lab Exercise 4: Interaction between
NetBackup and vSphere through Event
notification 5 Minutes
Lab Exercise 5: Configure a
NetBackup for VMware Media Server
Load Balancing 10 Minutes
Lab Exercise 6: Excluding the boot
disk from a Virtual Machine
Backup 15 Minutes
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Lab Layout: This demo is
configured with 3 VMware Workstation
based OS images. They are
described as follows:
NETBACKUP1 -‐ This is the
NetBackup Master Server and the
VMware Access Host for this Lab
Setup. A VMware Access Host
is the system that NetBackup
contacts to obtain ESX or ESXi
server and virtual machine
information including hostnames and
IP addresses. Note: For this
lab this server also has
OpsCenter installed.
VCENTER1 -‐ This system is the
brain of the VMware environment.
VMware’s vCenter server stores
information for every virtual machine
(VM) in the environment.
NetBackup 7 automatically contacts
the vCenter server and collects
and caches this VM information.
NetBackup then uses this
information to select any new
or moved VMs so that every
VM is automatically protected.
NetBackup 7 is fully integrated
with VMware’ vCenter server
architecture.
Additionally for the purpose of
this Advanced Lab only, this
machine has a NetBackup Media
Server configured. Note that we
do not recommend installing a
media server on VCenter in
production environments. For this lab
this was done to simplify the
lab deployment and to save disc
space. Typically, the media
server and vCenter server are
separate servers as vCenter servers
tend to be heavily utilized.
ESX1 -‐ This is the ESXi
Servers. You typically do not
need to log into this system.
The server hosts two virtual
machines. When the ESXi system
is booted the screen will look
like the screen shot below.
This is normal.
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NetBackup for VMware 7 Hands on
Lab System Diagram This diagram
illustrates how this lab is
connected from a physical point
of view.
All steps performed in this
Advanced Lab will be performed
on the system name “netbackup1”.
Help Icons Throughout this lab
document you will see special
“help” icons that assist you
with the lab or provide
additional information. These icons
are described as follows:
Now let’s start the lab!
This light bulb indicates that
more product information is provided.
Information in this box does
not need to be read to
complete the lab but provides
additional product information.
You will see this icon when
special lab instructions are
provided. Be sure to read
this type of instruction box
whenever you see it.
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Lab Exercise 1: Prepare the
NetBackup for VMware lab environment
for the Advanced Lab 5 Minutes
In this Advanced Lab we will
start beyond the point of the
setup and configuration tasks for
NetBackup 7.5 for VMware. In
order to do so a Lab
Preparation Tool is provided within
the VM that hosts the NetBackup
Master Server (netbackup1). Through
the tool the setup and
configuration tasks are automated and
you will start with a fresh
system. This has the additional
advantage that the lab VMs can
be used for multiple labs
without having to provide a
number of Virtual Machine Snapshots.
Keep in mind, each Snapshot is
consuming additional valuable disk
space.
We will now prepare
the NetBackup environment for our
needs of the Advanced Lab.
• If you are not already logged
in, log into the virtual
machine netbackup1 by clicking on
the “NETBACKUP1” tab in VMware
Workstation and clicking inside the
NETBACKUP1 VMware Workstation pane.
NOTE: You can start the
login process by simultaneously
selecting “Ctrl+Alt+Ins”. Login
using the following credentials (see
below):
Login = administrator Password =
symc4now
• Click on the Windows Start menu
(1), select the Windows
Explorer (2).
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Serveral of the NetBackup internal
database tasks related to Dedupe
operate on the assumption that
the backup server is machine
with 24/7 availablity. Hence Virtual
Machines that sometimes can be
offline for a month or longer
can get into trouble when fully
configured and left offline.
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• From the Windows Explorer select
the Volume “PROG E:\”. Launch
the “Install-‐GUI.exe” program and
close the Windows Explorer.
• In the NetBackup 7.5 VMware LAB
Preparation Tool execute the setup
steps top to bottom. Each of
the entries shows the additional
explanation what this step does.
Click on the “MSDP Setup” entry
(see below).
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• During the MSDP Setup the step
for configuring the Storage Server
will take some time. Don`t
worry, the screen will automatically
return to the previous screen
once all necessary steps have
been successfully completed.
• Click on “VMware Access Host
Setup” next (see below). Setting
up the VMware Access Host will
complete in seconds.
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• Click on “vCenter Credentials Setup”
next (see below). This step
will also complete in seconds.
• Finally click the “Create VMware
Policy” button.
• Close (1) the NetBackup 7.5
VMware LAB Preparation Tool.
We’ve now completed preparing the
Advanced Lab environment. This
completes Lab Exercise 1.
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Lab Exercise 2: Virtual Machine
Intelligent Policy (VIP) query
knowledge 10 Minutes
Virtual Machine Intelligent Policy (VIP)
is one of the centerparts of
NetBackup for VMware. Through VIP
the vSphere Infrastructure defined
fields are dynamically used in
queries. This Advanced Lab will
provide you additional information
where to find the descriptions
and meanings for the usable
parameters in “Field” and “Operator”
as well as a practical approach
for timesaving to get to
potential values.
NetBackup for VMware can work in
environments that have only ESX/ESXi
systems or also utilize a
vCenter server. This lab is
already connect to communicate
directly with the vCenter server.
NetBackup can contact each of
these systems and automatically
discover every virtual machine that
exists in the environment through
Virtual Machine Intelligent Policies
(VIP) queries.
In Lab exercise 3 we will
concentrate on the usage of
“custom defined fields” in the
VIP query. It`s important to
understand that a “custom defined
field” is an attribute that is
defined on the vCenter Server
and only lives inside the
vCenter Database.
Regardless of whether a VMware
vCenter server, ESX or ESXi
server is used, the methodical
approach for each of these
environments is very similar.
We will now have a closer
look at VIP and the query
fields in NetBackup:
• Click on the Windows “Start”
menu (1), select the NetBackup
Administration Console (2).
NetBackup 7 fully integrates with
one or any number of VMware
vCenter Servers. This greatly
enhances the scalability of NetBackup
when used with either VI3 or
vSphere 4 and 5.
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• Start by verifying the highlighted
sections which the NetBackup
7.5 VMware LAB Preparation Tool
configured for you (see
screenshot). Each item (1-‐4) will
now list values. (1) Storage
Servers (2) Disk Pools (3) Storage
Units (4) Virtual Machine Servers (5)
Policies, VMWARE
• Open the “VMWARE” Policy (5) by
double clicking it, then select
the “Clients” Tab. The currently
defined policy will backup any
Virtual Machine which has a
Displayname containing the digit 1.
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If you have any questions don`t
hesitate to call the Lab Admin
for assistance.
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• Click on the Windows “Start”
menu (1), select the “VMware
vSphere Client” (2).
• Log on to the vCenter server
using the following login
information:
vCenter hostname: vcenter1
User name: administrator
Password: symc4now
NOTE: Be careful typing and
avoid errors.
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• Once the vSphere client is
running we can determine which
virtual machines have the character
“1” in the display name.
At this point you should see
something similar to the screen
shot below. You may need
to click on the “+” sign
next to the ESX server to
expand the list.
• Click on the Virtual Machine
“vmwin1” and note the
“NB_LAST_BACKUP” field in the
“Summary Tab” under “Annotations”.
This is a customer defined
field which NetBackup automatically
creates and populates. Through this
a vCenter Admin can check for
the backup status of this VM
without having to contact the
NetBackup Backup Admin. We will
define additional custom fields in
Lab 3 that allow the vCenter
Admin to influence whether a VM
should be included or excluded
for the next backup.
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• Now go back to the NetBackup
Policy. Select the “NetBackup
Console” from the Window taskbar,
the “VMWARE” policy should still
be open. If not reopen it
through a doubleclick and go
the “Clients” tab. Let`s say
you want to construct a new
query that is more meaningful
to how you use vSpere in
your company. You plan to sit
down with your VMware Admin to
discuss what is defined today
and what could be used for
this query. One approach to
prepare your meeting is the
“manual explore” described next.
Click on the drop down box
next to “Field” (1) and select
“ESXserver”.
• Select e.g. the operator “Contains”
and click on the small folder
icon next to the “Value(s)”
field (1). The available options
will be browsed and displayed.
Some of the fields like the
ESXserver are self explanatory others
like the difference between
HostFolder, DatastoreFolder and VMFolder
might not be that obvious
especially if the browse does
not return data. This is
usually the case if the value
is not used in the environment
and therefore not set.
Click on “Cancel” (2) and then
the “Help” Button (3).
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• Scroll down and click on the
Hyperlink for the additional
information on “VMware policy type”
(1).
• Scroll to the descriptions for
“Table: Query Builder” (1) and
click on the Hyperlink for
“Query Builder field reference” (2).
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• Scroll to the “Table: Keywords
in the Field drop-‐down” (1).
This table describes the selectable
fields, the data type of a
given selectable value and the
additional description for it.
• Scroll down a little bit further
for the “Table: Operators in
the operator drop-‐down” (1). The
table contains the additional
description about the usage of
the operator with some example
results. Leave the help menu
open.
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• Click on the Windows “Start”
menu (1), select the “Command
Prompt” (2).
• Change to the directory “E:\Program
Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin” and enter the
command “ncfuriinfo vmware |more”.
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• The command ncfuriinfo vmware queries
the infrastructure and provides
additional useful information in one
place. Check e.g. for “Displayname”
or “ESXserver” (1) and note the
information about the available
resources in your infrastructure in
the “Can be:” (2) listing.
Rather than the manual approach in
the GUI clicking through each
and every field trying to find
out what is available for you
for building meaningful queries this
now lists it all in one
place. You can easily pipe this
into a text file and print
it for the meeting with the
VMware Admin or e-‐mail it to
him upfront to discsuss which
fields make most sense for your
environment to base a backup
stragety on. You now can
jointly discuss the general rules
when VMs are include or
exclude. Lab 3 will show you
how a “Custom Attribute” can
work as an additional override
switch without having to change
anything in the backup policies.
Arranging the Help Window next to
the Command Prompt let`s you
get a faster overview if a
field is suitable for your
intended query operation.
Please close the Windows Explorer,
the Help Window and the
“VMWARE” policy.
This completes Lab Exercise 2.
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Lab Exercise 3:
In the previous section we looked
at ways how to construct a
query that includes or excludes
Virtual Machines based on available
values. Now let`s look at
“Custom Attributes” as a way to
extend your and the VMadmins
flexibility in the decision process
whether a backup of a Virtual
Machine should happen. Often
times you need a way to
“ad hock” override the defaults
without introducing a whole lot
of change. Custom Attributes are
a great way that give you
this additional flexibility.
• Switch to the vSphere Client.
The vSphere Client should still
be open in your Taskbar. If
not log back into vCenter like
described in Lab 2.
From the navigation pane, select
“Administration” and click on “Custom
Attributes…”.
Interaction between vSphere and
NetBackup through custom fields 10
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• Click on “Add”.
• Define a new value with the
name “NB_BackupAttribute” and select
the Type “Virtual Machine”.
Click “OK”.
How the Attribute is named does
not matter. However it is good
practice to use a name schema
like NB_ to clearly identify
the attribute so that the
VMware Admin and the NetBackup
Backup Admin can associate the
Attribute with NetBackup at a
later time.
The Type matters. Only Attributes
that are defined as Type
“Virtual Machine” can be used
by NetBackup. Make sure you set
the Type variable correct.
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• To confirm your newly created
“Custom Attribute” click “OK”.
• Select the Virtual Machine “vmwin1”
(1). On the “Summary” tab (2)
you will now see the newly
created custom attribute
“NB_BackupAttribute” (3) showing up
under “Annotations”. Click “Edit”
(4).
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• For the purpose of this lab
we define the keywords that we
want to use to be “include”
or “exclude”. Click into the
“Value” field and type “include”.
Click “OK” once you set the
value.
• The screen will now look like
this.
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• Repeat the steps for “vmwin2”
but this time define the value
to be “exclude”.
• Change back into the NetBackup
Admin GUI. This should be still
open and available to you in
the Windows Task Bar. Open the
NetBackup “VMWARE” policy. On the
“Clients” tab scroll down (1)
in the drop down menu for
the available entries in the
“Field”
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The “Custom Attribute” that you
just defined might not show up
immediately. Don`t worry, the next
step will show you how you
resolve this situation immedediately
should this happen to you.
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• Part of this Advaned Lab is
to provide you with the
necessary knowledge how you fix
a situation like this right
away without having to wait on
an automatic refresh cycle.
Open the Windows Explorer browse
to the directory “E:\Program
Files\Veritas\NetBackup\online_util\fi_cntl”.
Find the highlighted “vcenter1_ca.xml”
(1) and delete it.
The vcenter1_ca.xml file caches the
information about available fields
from the drop down menu in
the step above. Once deleted
the file get`s automatically newly
created when the tab “Clients”
is revisited.
• Toggle between the “Attributes” (1)
and the “Clients” (2) tab. When
browsing again for the available
fields you will now find the
custom defined field “NB_BackupAttribute”
(3).
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• Remove the old query first by
selecting it (1) and clicking
the “Remove” (2) button. This
is for the purpose of this
Lab only and it is strongly
adviced to use the custom
attributes only in conjuction with
other fields.
• Create a new query based on
the “NB_BackupAttribute” Field (1),
select “Contains” (2) as the
Operator and click on the
Folder Icon (3) next to
“Value(s)” in order to browse
for available values. Select
“include” (4) and click “OK”
(5).
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• Don`t forget to add the query
by clicking the “+” sign (1)
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• Optional: Test the query (1).
The results will show that only
“vmwin1” (2) is included. Close
the query results window (3).
• Change to the “VMware” (1) tab
and click “Avanced” (2).
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Pro Tip:
Queries can also be tested from
the command line through the
use of the “nbdiscover” command.
This allows you to pipe the
results into a text file for
documentation purposes.
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• Note the new Parameter for “Post
events to vCenter”. By default
the parameter is set to post
“All Events”. Click “Cancel”. In
Lab 4 we will a closer
look at the posted events but
first we have to run a
backup.
• Click “OK” to finalize the
policy configuration.
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• Run a manual backup. Right click
the “VMWARE” policy and click
on “Manual Backup”.
• Because the Client VMs are
included dynamically into the backup
the “Clients” field on the
right of the Windows lists the
Backup Hosts instead. A new
feature in NetBackup 7.5 is
Media Server Load balancing for
VMware which we will have a
closer look at in Lab 5.
Because of this new functionality
the entry below is “MEDIA_SERVER”
vs. the real hostname of the
Backup Host. Click “OK”.
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• Monitor the backup progress in
the “Activity Monitor” (1). Through
the query and the set custom
attribute Client “vmwin1” (2) was
included. The backup was performed
through the Master/Media Server
“netbackup1” (3) which is also
a Backup Host in this
environment. In Lab 5 we will
configure the backup of several
VMs to get load balanced across
multiple backup hosts.
• In the vCenter Client change the
custom fields so that “vmwin1”
is “excluded” and “vmwin2” in
“included”.
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• Run another manual backup of
policy VMWARE.
The first thing you will notice
is that withough you having to
change anything in NetBackup now
“vmwin2” (1) is backed up and
no longer “vmwin1”.
The Dedupe Ratio (2) also
increased although this is a
first backup of “vmwin2”. This
is because both VMs run Windows
2003 as Operating System inside
and “vmwin2” can now already be
deduplicated against “vmwin1”. Subsequent
jobs of this Virtual Machines
will show even higher deduplication
rates.
The Backup Host that was used
was “netbackup1” (3). NetBackup1
hosts the MSDP Dedupe Storage.
We now seeded the storage with
the VMs and will distribute the
workload for fingerprint calculation
to a second system through
Media Server Load Balancing later
in Lab Exercise 5. Spreading
the load will have an overall
positive impact on the job
execution time as less jobs get
queued because jobs get dynamically
allocated to the next available
Media Server.
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• Finally, the backup status is
also updated in vCenter. This
update happens through the custom
attribute “NB_LAST_BACKUP”. Select e.g.
“vmwin2” (1), go the Summary
tab and look for the updated
value (2) in the Annotations
pane.
In the next Lab we will have
a closer look on the detailed
status of the backup through
“Tasks & Events”. Click the
“Task & Events” pane (3),
then read on.
This completes Lab Exercise 3.
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Watch out ! “Custom Attribute” do
not get restored when you do
a full VM restore. It therefore
is strongly adviced to not
solely rely on a defined custom
attribute for your general backups.
You need to see it as an
additional switch which allows better
cooperation between the Backup Admin
and the VM Admin tasks. The
VM Admin is empowered by the
Backup Admin with the additional
capability to override the defaults
on a per Virtual Machine basis
from within the vSphere Client
and without the need for a
change within the NetBackup
environment.
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Lab Exercise 4:
A new feature in NetBackup 7.5
is the ability to post events
about the backup status back
into vCenter. Through this
interaction additional information about
the backups (like the backup
job ID) become available in
vCenter on a per Virtual
Machine basis. This functionality is
the foundation for the vSphere
Plugin which will become available
later this year. The vSphere
Plugin will provide additional roll
up reports across your VMs in
the infrastructure.
The ability to see the events
posted in vCenter is a great
help in any situation where you
need to isolate an occurring
error.
• In Lab 3 on page 25 and
26 we had a look at the
“Advanced” section of the “VMWARE”
policy.
The interaction between the vCenter
Server and NetBackup happens through
the Configuration Parameter “Post
events to vCenter”. Possible values
are “All Events”, “Only Error
Events” and “None”.
Interaction between NetBackup and
vSphere through Event notification 5
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• Since we already have run
successful backups of the available
Virtual Machines in the environment
we can directly go to the
vSphere Client
The previous lab ended with
clicking on “Tasks & Events”
pane for the Virtual Machine
“vmwin2”. A click on “Events”
(1) will display the detailed
information about the backup jobs.
Information like the Job ID,
the type of the backup (e.g.
Full) as well as the duration
of the backup is visible (2).
The last step of a backup is
the update task for the custom
field “NB_LAST_BACKUP” (3).
This completes Lab Exercise 4.
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Lab Exercise 5: Configure a
NetBackup for VMware Media Server
Load Balancing 10 Minutes
At this point of the Lab we
want to expand the setup and
configure a load balancing across
multiple backup hosts. In older
versions of NetBackup the backup
policy had a dedicated Backup
Host listed. If this Backup
Host happens to become unavailable
for some reason, all backup
jobs for this policy would not
run unless manual intervention
(changing the Backup Host in
the policy) resolves this situation.
NetBackup 7.5 resolves this situation
by introducing the “Backup Media
Server” substitute as a placeholder
for any available Backup Host.
In Lab 3 we seeded the
storage with the VMs. This
allows us to distribute the
workload for the fingerprint
calculation to a second system
through Media Server Load Balancing
without having to move the data
to the storage again. The newly
added Media Server calculates the
fingerprints of the incoming
datastream and recognizes which data
is already stored. Spreading
the load will have an overall
positive impact on the job
execution time as less jobs get
queued. Jobs get dynamically
allocated to the next available
Media Server.
In this Lab we use MSDP
(Media Server Duplication Pool) as
the Storage Target. In NetBackup
7.5 the support for media
server deduplication pools increased
in capacity from 32 TB
(NetBackup 7.1) to now 64 TB.
Media Server Load balancing for
VMware works with any type of
configured storage in the backend
(Tape, Disk, Dedupe Disk). The
graphic on the next page
depicts how additional Media Servers
support the deduplication process
through a distributed Fingerprint
calculation while the storage is
physically only connected to one
Media Server.
In our Lab “netbackup1” is
the MSDP Server and “vcenter1”
becomes the additional Fingerprint
Media Server.
Let’s configure the Media Server
Load Balancing.
Currently the Backup Hosts that
can participate in the Media
Server Load Balancing must be
Windows Servers. An expansion to
other platforms is already planned
for future versions of NetBackup.
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• Select the NetBackup Administration
Console from the Windows Taskbar.
Open the “VMWARE” (1) Policy,
select the “Clients” Tab (2)
and open the drop down box
(3) for “NetBackup host to
perform automatic virtual machine
selection”.
Both Backup Hosts are listed here
and the selection of Backup
Media Server will automatically load
balance the backups across those
Backup Hosts. There is nothing
more that you need to configure
inside the Policy to make Media
Server Load Balancing work. Close
the Policy (4).
• Yet, we still have to allow
the additional Media Server to
participate and join the Media
Server Deduplication Storage Pool.
Select “Storage Servers” (1) and
double click “netbackup1” (2). All
you need to do is set the
checkmark for “vcenter1” (3) and
click “OK” (4).
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• Next, select “Storage Units” (1)
and double click the “MSDP_STU”
(2) entry. Set the checkbox for
“vcenter1” (3) and click “OK”
(4).
• At this point both Virtual
Machines should have the Attribute
“include” set in the custom
attribute “NB_BackupAttribute”. You
can verify this inside the
Virtual Infrastructure Client. Run
another manual backup for policy
“VMWARE”.
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• Click on the “Activity Monitor”
(1) to follow the progress of
the backup. You will now see
both Virtual Machines being backed
up (2) at the same time
where one VM is processed
through “netbackup1” and the other
through “vcenter1” (3).
This completes Lab Exercise 5.
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Lab Exercise 6: Excluding the boot
disk from a Virtual Machine
Backup 15 Minutes
In this part of the Lab we
concentrate on a new feature in
NetBackup 7.5 which is called
“Virtual Disk Selection”. This new
feature allows you to exclude
the boot disk of a Virtual
Machine from the backup or
exclude the data disks.
• Start by excluding “vmwin1” from
the backup.
Virtual Disk Selection works on a
VMDK basis. If the boot volume
and a data volume are placed
on the same VMDK there is
no way to seperate them.
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• Open the “VMWARE” (1) policy,
select the “VMware” (2) tab.
Click “Advanced” (3). The parameters
for “Virtual disk selection” (4)
allow you to control what to
exclude from the backup. For
this Lab select “Exclude boot
disk” (5) and click “OK” twice
(6).
• Run a manual backup of policy
“VMWARE”.
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• In the Virtual Infrastructure Client
select “vmwin2” (1). On the
“Summary” tab click “Edit Settings”
(2). Note that the system has
two harddisks configured. Click
“Cancel” (3).
• In the NetBackup Activity Monitor
the job has completed and only
backed up a couple of
Megabytes. Open the Backup Archive
Restore (BAR) GUI (1).
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• Specify the NetBackup Machine and
Policy Type. Select “vmwin2” as
Client and “VMware” as Policy
Type.
• Click the drop down box next
to “Select for Restore” and
choose “Restore from Normal Backup”.
• Compare the last two full
backups. Close the view afterwards.
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• Click the “Select for Restore”
drop down box and choose
“Restore from Virtual Machine
Backup”.
• Select “vmwin2” (1) for restore.
Note that you can`t select
individual VMDK disks for restore
(2). Click the restore button
(3).
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• In order to restore just the
data disks with a new name
while the original VM is still
up and running you need to
select “Alternate location”.
NetBackup recognizes that the restore
does not contain the boot
volume. Click “Next”.
• No changes needed here, click
“Next”.
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• Important: Specify an alternate name
for the restore. Click “Next”.
• Only set the checkbox for
restoring the original BIOS UUID
if you are planning to replace
the old existing disk with this
copy. If not let the system
create a new BIOS UUID. If
the VM had a DVD/CD connected
during the backup you need to
set the checkmark for removing
that backup information. Click
“Next”.
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• Click “Next”.
• Remove the Network connection for
the restore. Click “Next”.
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• Run the “Pre-‐Recovery Check”.
• Start the recovery.
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• Select “No” for the option to
view the progress in the BAR
GUI.
• Go to the Activity Monitor. Wait
till the restore is finished.
• Note that the restored VM does
not have the customer attributes
populated.
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• Disconnect “Harddisk 2” from “vmwin2”
by clicking the “Remove” button
in the “Edit Settings” menu.
• Just remove if from the Virtual
Machine. Do not delete the
Disk. Click “OK”.
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• Click the “Add” button.
• Select “Hard Disk”. Click “Next”.
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• Select “Use an existing virtual
disk”. Click “Next”.
• Browse for the virtual disk that
you just restored.
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• Complete the remaining steps in
the wizard.
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• The virtual Disk from the
restore is now connected to the
existing VM. Click “OK”.
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• Finally, power on the Virtual
Machine and review that the
restore did work.
This completes the final section
of this NetBackup 7 for VMware
Hands On Lab. Thank you
for joining us today!