vSphere Client
> Home > Solutions and Applications > NetApp
Backup and
Recovery > Setup
- Click ‘Add…’ to add in the Storage System(s)
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4.1 Backup and Recovery - Setup
Note i: The
controllers might already have been added in under ‘Monitoring and Host
Configuration’ but they need to be entered again in the ‘Backup and Recovery’
section!
Note ii: The VSC
can also update SnapMirror relationships if you add in the remote Storage
System too.
Backup and
Recovery > Backup
- Under ‘All Backup Jobs’ click on Add… which brings up
the ‘Backup Wizard’
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4.1 Backup and Recovery - Backup (also showing fields)
Backup Wizard -
Step 1: Job Name
- Enter Name and Description
- Tickable options include: ‘Initiate SnapMirror update’,
‘Perform VMware consistency snapshot’, and ‘Include datastores with independent
disks’
- Click Next >
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Wizard - Step 1
Backup Wizard -
Step 2: Virtual Entities
- Select either the VM(s) and/or Datastore(s) that you
want to backup
- Click Next >
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Wizard - Step 2 with a selected entity of Datastore
Note i: If a Datacenter is selected in the
‘Entities’ drop down, the ‘Available Entities’ are Datastores.
Note ii: If a Datastore is selected in the ‘Entities’
drop down, the ‘Available Entities’ are VMs.
Backup Wizard -
Step 3: Spanned Entities
*This step is
skipped if there are no VMs that span datastores outside what was selected.
Otherwise - “Some of the virtual machines span multiple datastores. You can
exclude datastores from the backup.”
Backup Wizard -
Step 4: Scripts
- Select from the Available scripts (** that is if there are any - hope to write more on this at a later
date **)
- Click Next >
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Wizard - Step 4 (currently showing no available scripts to select)
Backup Wizard -
Step 5: Schedule
- Select schedule as required from the options of Hourly,
Daily, Weekly, Monthly or One time only
- Click Next >
Backup Wizard -
Step 6: Credentials
- Specify the credentials which will be used to run the
backup job, this can be the ‘default vCenter credentials’.
- Click Next >
Backup Wizard -
Step 7: Retention and Alerts
- Specify backup retention based on maximum days, maximum
no of backups, or backup indefinitely
- Specify email alerts settings or set to ‘Notify on:
Never’
- Click Next >
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Wizard - Step 7
Backup Wizard -
Step 8: Ready to Complete
- Review the Summary, and - if all is okay - tick whether
to ‘Run Job Now’ or not, and click Finish
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Wizard - Step 8
The newly created backup job will then appear in the list
of ‘All Backup Jobs’ as in the example below.
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Backup and Recovery > Backup > All Backup Jobs
And if all’s working then tasks similar to the below
example should appear in the vSphere Client.
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vSphere Client NetApp Create Backup tasks
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