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.