05-03-2013 05:10 AM
Hello, I am running NetBackup 7.5.0.4, VSphere 5.0. I restored a VM on 1 May to it's original location and was able to authenticate to the domain upon restore. Yesterday I restored another VM to an alternate location and attempted to logon and was unable to because the machine lost it's NIC settings during the restore. I then restored another VM to it's original location and was unable to authenticate to the domain because the NIC settings were set to a private IP during restore. I can't seem to find a trend. It leads me to wonder if NetBackup up capturing the vmx file so it can restore the machines settings. The only guidance I found on this pertains to VCB and we are using VStorage. Has anyone successfully resolved this issue.
05-03-2013 05:29 AM
When restoring are you powering on the VM and also restoring the NIC connections?
05-03-2013 05:32 AM
I do not select power on after restore. I think that I am restoring the NIC connections I select the applicable NIC when restoring to an alternate location. I'm not certain if this answers your question.
05-03-2013 05:58 AM
So your powering on manually? Are you doing SAN backup SAN restore?
05-03-2013 06:38 AM
Yes
05-03-2013 08:06 AM
What O/S are the VM's you are restoring?
Just wondering if it is caused by the MAC address needing to be changed after restoring Linux machines to alternate locations?
05-03-2013 12:02 PM
Mark, they are Windows 2008 R2.
05-03-2013 12:22 PM
Mark, I came across a thread in the VMware community that suggested the same thing for Windows 2008 R2. Someone suggested that windows thinks it has a new physical NIC because the MAC changes and therefore wipes the IP. They suggested documenting the generatedAddresss form the .vmx prior to restore and edit the new .vmx upon restore. I don't have permissions to these files so I was trying to ensure that nothing could be done from a NetBackup perspective. I'm running a restore now to its original location. I think I'm going wrong at the network connections menu. I select the PROD PG-301 (see attached) as this is the network that the majority are on when I verify on the summary tab in VSphere. I just noticed that there is a box for select all?
05-03-2013 03:00 PM