Agent--VMWare

1.1 Create Virtualization Platform

Prerequisites

• Created a storage pool.
• Created a service plan.

Steps

Step 1: Click on the [Data Protection] - [Backup Service] - [Virtualization].

Step 2: Click the [Add] button in [Virtualization Platform], and a popup will appear.

Step 3: Select the VMware icon and click [Next Step] to enter the "Add Virtualization Platform" page.

Parameter Name	Description	Configuration Principle
Platform Name	Text input, required	Special symbols such as !#$%^&* are not supported
Platform Address	Text input, required	Enter the correct address
Username	Text input, required	Enter the correct username
Password	Password type, required	Enter the correct password
Access Node	Single choice, required	Choose an appropriate access node

Step 4: After filling out the form, click [Confirm]. The frontend will prompt "Added successfully".

1.2 Create Virtual Machine Group

Prerequisites

• A Virtualization platform has been created.

Steps

Step 1: Click the [Add] button in [VM Groups], and the [Add Virtual Machine Group] page will appear.

Step 2: Fill in the necessary parameters, add the virtual machines to be backed up, and exclude the virtual machines that do not need to be backed up in the filter.

Step 3: Click the [Confirm] button, and the page will prompt "Added successfully".

1.3 Virtual Machine Group Backup

Prerequisites

• A virtual machine group has been created.

Steps

Step 1: Click [VM Group] - [Actions] - [Backup].Choose either "Full Backup“ or ”Incremental Backup“, then click [Confirm].

Step 2: After the job starts successfully, click [Monitoring] - [Jobs] - [Active Jobs] to view the job.

Step 3: Once the backup is complete, click [Monitoring Center] - [Jobs] - [Job History] to see the backup job, and confirm the job status as "Completed".

1.4 Virtual Machine Recovery

Prerequisites

• The virtual machine group has been fully or incrementally backed up.

Steps

Step 1: Click the system menu [Backup Service] - [Virtualization] - [Virtual Machine].

Step 2: Check the [Virtual Machine] you want to recover from the list, click [Add Recovery Set], and then click the icon next to it.

Step 3: The Recovery Set window will pop up. Search for the recovery point by Time Range or Recovery Point, then click [Confirm].

Step 4: Select the recovery point and the "Backup Job ID", then click [Next Step]. Choose "Complete Virtual Machine"; guest files are currently not supported.

Step 5: Choose "In-Place Recovery".

Step 6: Or choose "Cross-site Recovery", configure the settings, and click [Confirm].

Step 7: Once the job starts successfully, click [Monitoring Center] - [Jobs] - [Active Jobs] to view the job.

Step 8: After the job completes, click [Monitoring Center] - [Jobs] - [Job History] to see the job and its status.

1.5 Virtual Machine Guest File Recovery

Prerequisites

• The virtual machine group has been fully or incrementally backed up, and the backup was successful.
• The corresponding RPM package for file recovery is installed on the storage node. See: Storage installation dependency package supports virtualization file recovery.

Steps

Step 1: Click the system menu [Backup Service] - [Virtualization] - [Virtual Machine].

Step 2: Check the [Virtual Machine] you want to recover from the list, click [Add to Recovery Set], and then click the icon next to it.

Step 3: The "Recovery Set" window will pop up. Search for the recovery point by "time range" or "recent recovery point", then click [Confirm].

Step 4: Select the recovery point and the "Backup Job ID", then click [Next Step]. Choose "Guest Files".

Step 5: Check the virtual machine files that need to be recovered.

Step 6: Recover to the target host and path.

Step 7: Once the job starts successfully, click [Monitoring] - [Jobs] - [Active Jobs] to view the job.

Step 8: After the job completes, click [Monitoring] - [Jobs] - [Job History] to view the job and its status.

The file recovery is complete.