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Netbackup Appliance 5240 vCenter

dawitayele
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Hello,

I have Netbackup Appliance 5240 3.1.1 configured and i wanted to take backup of my vCenter, and i am confused. where should i install Netbackup client software?

Please discribe the steps

Thank You

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Hi hi

the problem was from the root user account, i used another administrative account to be able to successfully add vCenter credentials to Netbackup Appliance. 

 

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Marianne
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NetBackup Client software is part of server software. 
So, already on the Appliance.

Steps are documented in NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide

 Please read through Chapter 1 (Introduction) and Chapter 2 (Required tasks: overview).

These topics are covered in Chapter 1:

■ About NetBackup for VMware
■ Updates to this guide for NetBackup 8.1.1
■ About the virtual machine backups that include database data
■ About the NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host
■ NetBackup for VMware components
Appliance as backup host: component overview
■ Media servers as backup or discovery hosts
■ Overview of the VMware backup process
■ NetBackup for VMware license requirement
■ NetBackup for VMware terminology

Thank You Marianne,

Can i use root username and password of vCenter when adding Virtual Machine Server Credentials to Netbackup ?

Thank You

Hello 

i am getting an Error Message "vmware credential validation failed (status -1)" while trying to add the vCenter Server. please assist.

i hv attached the screenshot 

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Marianne
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Did you check basic network comms between the backup host (the hostname that is next to "Validate using backup host:" ) and vCenter?
Can you ping the vCenter hostname? 
Is port 443 open in both directions? 

Yes i have checked everything i can ping the vCenter using Fully Qualified Hostname from the Appliance, and i can ping My 5240 appliance from the vCenter Server as well.

Marianne
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Have you checked port connectivity as well?

Another user resolved the same type of error by adding credentials from cmd:
https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Vmware-credential-validation-failed-connect-failed-1/td-p/58054...
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000037730

 

 

 

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@dawitayele

Please tell us what was done to resolve the issue?

Hi hi

the problem was from the root user account, i used another administrative account to be able to successfully add vCenter credentials to Netbackup Appliance.