NetBackup for VMware agent
Note:
The following section is applicable for NetBackup master server 8.1 or later and NetBackup client 8.1 or later.
Accurate licensing for virtual machine (VM) is specific to a VMware policy. This type of licensing collects the total number of Front-End Terabytes (FETBs) protected by NetBackup.
The nbdeployutil utility reports actual data usage by calculating the accurate data size using the related backup files and policies. The following rules are applied to guarantee data size accuracy:
If the data size backed up by the policy is greater than the sum of other two policies, the data size of is counted.
If the data size backed up by the policies and are greater than the , the data size of and is counted.
If identical policies are taken, the policy with higher size is counted.
If different policies use the same virtual machine (VM) identifiers, they are detected as identical policies.
The uncounted policies are displayed with 0 data size in the FEDS table generated by the nbdeployutil utility.
System administrators can use the following ways to verify the data size reported by accurate licensing.
If all disks are included in the backup, verify the size of the ESX datastore.
If a specific disk is excluded during the backup, verify its size on the guest operating system (OS) of the virtual machine.