Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs
You can use the NetBackup Activity Monitor to keep track of virtual machines backups as they occur. The number of jobs that appear in the Activity Monitor depends on the policy's Application Consistent Snapshot option.
Note:
By default, the Application Consistent Snapshot option is enabled. In most cases, NetBackup recommends that you keep this option enabled. If this option is disabled, data in the virtual machine may not be in a consistent state when the snapshot occurs.
Table: Job flow in the Activity Monitor
Application consistent snapshot option | Job flow in the Activity Monitor |
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Enabled | The first job discovers the virtual machines. This job is labeled Backup. Backup job starts with the following:
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Disabled | The first job discovers the virtual machines. This job is labeled Backup. Backup job starts with the following:
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Example 1: Virtual machine jobs with the Application Consistent Snapshot option enabled.
The jobs occurred as follows:
The discovery (parent) Backup job for virtual machine discovery is ID 2.
Job 3 made VMware snapshots of the virtual machine VMwareNAS_DemoVM.
Job 4 made snapshots of datastore NetAPP_SS_200.
Job 5 parent Backup from Snapshot export and mount the snapshot.
Job 6 child Backup from Snapshot does the backup and creates the backup image.
Example 2: Virtual machine jobs with the Application Consistent Snapshot option disable.
The jobs occurred as follows:
The discovery (parent) Backup job for virtual machine discovery is ID 7.
Job 8 collected the configuration data of all the virtual machines selected (VM1, VM2, and so forth).
Jobs 9 snapshots of the virtual machine datastores.