Notes on the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5)
Note the following about the NetBackup plug-in:
For the NetBackup version 10.0 and later, the plug-in is installed on the NetBackup server itself and is registered with the desired vCenter.
NetBackup 10.0 is supported from vCenter version 6.7 U1 and later. The plug-in is based on the Remote Plug-in Architecture VMware for version 6.7 U1 and later provides.
Also, with vCenter 7.0 and later versions, multiple NetBackup servers are available for selection during the plug-in login.
The user must log on to the plug-in with the same NetBackup server to access and manage backup and recovery of the virtual machines that are performed with a specific NetBackup server.
To access and manage the backup and recovery of the virtual machines with a specific NetBackup server, the user must select the same NetBackup server when logging in to the plug-in.
With vSphere version 7.0, it is possible to register multiple NetBackup servers with the plug-in, which would appear in the login screen, for selection. Register each NetBackup primary server with the plug-in to access it for recovery management and virtual disk exclusion. More information is available about registration from multiple NetBackup servers.
See Installing the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5).
For NetBackup version 10.0 and later, all the plug-ins that were installed before the NetBackup version 10.0 are not supported.
For detailed information about uninstalling the plug-ins that were installed before NetBackup 10.0:
See Uninstalling the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5).
The best screen resolution for the plug-in is 1280 x 1024 or greater.
The plug-in does not support auto-refresh. To refresh the display, click the vSphere Client refresh icon.
In vCenter, the default retention period for vCenter events is 180 days. This value is the recommended setting.
If an ESXi server is removed from vCenter and re-added, the events for the VMs managed by that ESXi are lost. For VM status, the plug-in shows "No Backup Information." The status changes as new backup events occur for each VM.
The NetBackup primary server must be configured with backup policies of the type VMware, with the option set to All Events.
The plug-in monitors backups that a NetBackup VMware policy made. The plug-in does not monitor backups from other policy types.
Note the following exceptions:
The plug-in does not monitor backups from a VMware policy that had Use Replication Director enabled and Application Consistent Snapshot disabled (under Snapshot options).
The plug-in does not monitor all the copies that a storage lifecycle policy (SLP) makes; it monitors the first image only.
Search for virtual machines does not support non-ASCII characters. However, the search results show the VM names that contain non-ASCII characters. Therefore, you can search for ASCII characters only and still see the VMs that contain non-ASCII characters in their names.