Setting up Hyper-V Intelligent Policy: Task overview
This topic is a high-level overview of how to set up a NetBackup policy for automatic selection of Hyper-V virtual machines. Follow the links in the table for more details.
Table: Automatic selection of virtual machines: overview of the tasks
Steps to configure automatic selection | Description and notes |
|---|---|
Configure a Hyper-V policy | Use the policy Attributes tab. |
Set rules for virtual machine selection in the policy Query builder | On the policy Clients tab, click . Choose a host for virtual machine selection (the default is the Hyper-V server). To add the rules, use the Query builder drop-down fields. See Create a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection. |
Test the rules | Click in the Query builder on the Clients tab. Virtual machines are labeled as included or excluded, based on the rules. Note: The list of virtual machines is not saved in the Clients tab. Note: The query rules are also displayed in the Backup selections tab. The backup selections are pre-set to All_LOCAL_DRIVES (not displayed). |
Run a backup | When the policy runs, NetBackup consults the rules in the Query builder, creates a list of virtual machines, and backs them up. |
Check the backup | To see which virtual machines were backed up, use the Activity Monitor. |