Avamar for VMware User Guide

1 Dell EMC Avamar for VMwareUser 2020 Rev. 06 Notes, cautions, and warningsNOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. 2001 - 2020 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Othertrademarks may be trademarks of their respective 1: protection block backup virtual machine backup and recovery support in Amazon Web Services (AWS)..18 Chapter 2: Configuration and (Optional) Configuring support for multiple Avamar Administrator vCenter-to- Avamar vCenter authentication certificates to the MCS MCS certificate a dedicated vCenter user a vCenter of virtual domain mapping rules for VM a Deployment proxies with Proxy Deployment Avamar proxies from release or Avamar proxies from releases prior to release a proxy with an Avamar the proxy guest operating system admin the proxy guest operating system root Avamar server automatic proxy the MCS to support both guest and image 3.

2 And versus static container independent and container protection which represents VMware entity type and clients and clients and protected virtual a replicated virtual machine the vCenter synchronizing Avamar Administrator with a a vCenter Image guest backup throttling parameters to a Proxy Virtual Machine machine and proxy relationships within proxy datastore and group 4: an on-demand backup of a virtual machine by using AUI ..45 Performing an on-demand backup by using the Avamar advanced plug-in options in the including virtual machines in a truncation backups with Microsoft SQL log backups with Microsoft Exchange log for vCenter HA failover for inflight a backup to support VMware encryption support a backup to support vSAN 5: and file-level restore an instance of a VM backup by using the AUI.

3 58 Image backup restore the full image or selected drives to the original virtual the full image or selected drives to a different virtual Windows VMDKs from an image 64 Restore the full image or selected drives to a new virtual machine by using Avamar 65 File-level restore (FLR)..664 ContentsPerformance improvements for file-level restore supported restore a file-level restore (FLR) operation by using a file-level restore (FLR) operation by using the Data Protection Backup and Recovery File-Level Restore specific folders or files to the original virtual machine by using Avamar 70 Restoring specific folders or files to a different virtual machine by using Avamar 6: Backup is Backup Validation 73 Performing an on-demand backup 73 Scheduling backup 74 Chapter 7: Protecting the vCenter Management up the vCenter management 76 Implementing guest backups of vCenter management 77 Creating a dataset for vCenter management infrastructure a backup client for vCenter database 78 Recovering vCenter management infrastructure from Avamar 78 Support for vCenter HA failover for inflight 78 Chapter 8: Protecting ESX 80 Task ESX host authentication certificates to the MCS 81 Creating a dedicated ESX host user an ESX host as a vCenter a proxy in a standalone ESX 84 Deploying a proxy appliance in an ESX host using the vSphere configuring proxy network 85 Registering and activating the proxy with the Avamar 85 Disassociating an ESX host from a 86 Chapter 9.

4 Avamar image backup and recovery for VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS).. 87 Avamar image backup and recovery for VMware Cloud on the VMware Cloud on AWS web portal 87 Amazon AWS web portal 88vCenter server inventory 88 Deploy the vProxy OVA on a vCenter server in VMware Cloud on vCenter-to- Avamar authentication for VMware Cloud on image backup and restore for VMware Cloud on AWS best 89 Unsupported Avamar 90 Appendix A: Manually deploying the proxy appliance template the proxy appliance in a proxy appliance in vCenter using the vSphere Web and activating the proxy with the Avamar proxy settings in Avamar optional proxy performance B: vSphere Data data C: Using VMware vRealize Log 96 About VMware vRealize Log the Log Central Reporting Log Forwarding Agents.

5 97 Appendix D: Plug-in to set plug-in Image backup plug-in Image restore plug-in VMware GLR plug-in E: and configuration problems and adding vCenter Server as Avamar network when registering guest backup or Windows recovery target problems and does not fail with No Proxy or No VM block tracking does not take are not assigned to backup snapshot fails backups due to incorrect pre-evaluation of available 102 Backup and restore of vFlash Read Cache enabled VMs will use NBD transport log truncation unsupported when VMDK is encrypted via 103 Restore problems and snapshots cause restores to to new virtual machine not available when physical RDM disks are 103 FLR browse of a granular disk backup without a partition table is not 104 Fault tolerance disabled when restore to new virtual machine is to new virtual machine to Virtual SAN will fail.

6 104 Powering on an instant access vFlash-VM backup to a host without flash capacity configured fails .. 104 Maximum number of NFS mounts with instant access restore on RHEL 5 requires the standard C++ restore of a folder or file name containing certain special characters restore to user profile fails when Admin Approval Mode is Image backup Default proxy virtual machine 143. Example independent and container 374. Account Management Virtual machine and proxy relationships within Example nested container 457. Example nested container 61 FiguresFigures71. Revision Typographical Guest backup installation 154. Minimum required vCenter user account Example chart for gathering proxy 316. Example chart for gathering proxy information, Virtual machine Avamar Administrator icons.

7 379. Required permissions for the Avamar Image restore toolbar FLR support partitioning File system support for LVM support for Multi-device support for 6715. Important vCenter management infrastructure 7716. Minimum required ESX host user account 8217. Required vSphere data Backup options for Avamar VMware Image 9819. Restore options for Avamar VMware Image 100 Tables8 TablesAs part of an effort to improve the product lines, revisions of the software and hardware are periodically released. Therefore, somefunctions that are described in this document might not be supported by all versions of the software or hardware currently in use. Theproduct release notes provide the most up-to-date information on product the technical support professional when a product does not function correctly or does not function as described in : This document was accurate at publication time.

8 To find the latest version of this document, go to OnlineSupport ( ).PurposeThis publication describes various methods and strategies for protecting VMware virtual information in this publication is intended for system administrators familiar with: Basic Avamar system administration principles, and procedures found in the Avamar Administration Guide Other Avamar client software information (primarily installation, and configuration procedures) found in various Avamar client guidesA comprehensive discussion of basic Avamar system administration concepts and principles, such as clients, datasets, schedules, retentionpolicies, groups, and group policy, is beyond the scope of this publication. The Avamar Administration Guide provides historyThe following table presents the revision history of this 1.

9 Revision history RevisionDateDescription06 June, 2020 Updated "Performance improvements forfile-level restore" 22, 2019 Updates to " Avamar image backup andrestore for VMware Cloud on AWS bestpractices."04 January 25, 2019 Updates to "Unsupported Avamaroperations" for Avamar image backup andrestore in VMware Cloud on prerequisite related to NSX-T in thesection "Configure the VMware Cloud onAWS web portal console."03 December 14, 2018 Added Windows-related file-level restoreconsiderations02 September 24, 2018 Updates to support GA release of 7, 2018GA release of Avamar documentationThe following EMC publications provide additional information:PrefacePreface9 E-LAB Navigator at Avamar Release Notes Avamar Administration Guide Avamar Operational Best Practices Guide Avamar Product Security Guide Avamar Backup Clients User Guide Avamar for Exchange VSS User Guide Avamar for IBM DB2 User Guide Avamar for Lotus Domino User Guide Avamar for Oracle User Guide Avamar for SharePoint VSS User Guide Avamar for SQL Server User Guide The following VMware publications provide additional information.

10 Introduction to VMware vSphere Getting Started with ESX vSphere Basic System Administration vSphere Resource Management Guide vSphere Web Access Administrator's Guide ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide ESX Configuration Guide VMware Data Recovery Administration GuideTypographical conventionsThese type style conventions are used in this 2. Typographical conventions BoldUsed for names of interface elements, such as names of windows, dialog boxes, buttons, fields, tabnames, key names, and menu paths (what the user specifically selects or clicks)ItalicUsed for full titles of publications that are referenced in textMonospaceUsed for: System code System output, such as an error message or script Pathnames, filenames, prompts, and syntax Commands and optionsMonospace italicUsed for variablesMonospace boldUsed for user input[ ]Square brackets enclose optional values|Vertical bar indicates alternate selections - the bar means "or"{ }Braces enclose content that the user must specify, such as x or y or indicate nonessential information that is omitted from the exampleWhere to get helpThe Avamar support page provides access to licensing information, product documentation, advisories, and downloads, as well as how-toand troubleshooting information.