09-24-2014 05:27 AM
Environnement : NetBackup 7.6 and VMware <= 5.1
An easy way to select VM in a NetBackup policy is to create an additionnal field = custom attributes (exemple "NBU_for_Query") for each VM, and to set in this field a policy name.
Each NetBackup policy of VMware typeis defined with a rule so that when there is the current policy name in the custom attribute "NBU_for_Query" field, the VM is backed up.
Problem : in WMware 5.5, the vsphere client is replaced by a web interface... and there is no way with this web interface to modify custom attributes... these attributes seems to be replaced by "tags" and "tags" are not tested by NetBackup !
Is there another easy way to manage backup policies in VMware 5.5 ?
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09-25-2014 04:52 PM
vSphere 5.5 still has a vSphere Client.
Currently the API will not support VMware tags.
This also sounds like it might be helpful for you:
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2014/02/vsphere-web-client-plugin-for-custom.html
09-24-2014 06:50 AM
What about using the annotations field for each VM ?
Netbackup plug-in appliance uses this field for setting last backup date.
Netbackup can query this field.
It is worth mentioning Netbackup Vcenter plug-in for VMware isn't available in the web client as well. So we need the old fat VMware Vsphere client a while.
09-25-2014 04:52 PM
vSphere 5.5 still has a vSphere Client.
Currently the API will not support VMware tags.
This also sounds like it might be helpful for you:
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2014/02/vsphere-web-client-plugin-for-custom.html