Ensuring that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director
NetBackup can back up VMware vCloud Director environments and restore virtual machines into vCloud Director.
See About NetBackup for vCloud Director.
To ensure that any VM guest customizations are restored into vCloud Director, you must set a NetBackup parameter, as follows:
On Windows, you must set a registry value.
See “To ensure that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director on Windows”.
On UNIX and Linux, you must edit a NetBackup configuration file.
See “To ensure that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director on Linux”.
The parameter value specifies a wait period in seconds so that the guest customizations can be restored successfully. (The VMware API requires that the VMware Tools are installed and running, but the state of the VMware Tools cannot be identified after the restore. Therefore, we wait the specified amount of time so that the VMware Tools are running in the initial restore environment.)
To ensure that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director on Windows
- On the Windows desktop of the backup host, click Start > Run and enter regedit.
- To be on the safe side, make a backup of the current registry (File > Export).
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Veritas > NetBackup > CurrentVersion > CONFIG and create a key that is called BACKUP.
- Create a new DWORD under BACKUP and name it powerCycleInterval.
Enter a decimal value of 60 for the timeout.
- Close the Windows Registry Editor.
To ensure that guest customizations can be restored in vCloud Director on Linux
- On the Linux backup host, create (or open) the following file:
/usr/openv/netbackup/virtualization.conf - Create a line in the file named [BACKUP] and then on a separate line create a powerCycleInterval dword parameter with a value of 60, as follows:
For example:
[BACKUP] "powerCycleInterval"=dword:60
Note: If the file already contains a [BACKUP] line, do not add another [BACKUP] line. Any other lines that already exist under [BACKUP] should remain as they are.
- Save the file and then close it from the text editor.