New options to exclude disks from VMware backups
This release provides new options to support excluding disks from VMware backups. These new options are on the Exclude Virtual Disks from Backup panel of the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard and on the Change Policy dialog box Exclude Disks tab.
The existing exclude disk options are moved from the VMware - Advanced Attributes dialog to the new dialog box and wizard panel.
For more information, see the "Exclude Disks tab" topic in the 8.1 version of the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide available through the following URL:
Alternatively, you can use the NetBackup bpplinfo command to configure backup policy attributes.
One of the new exclude disk options is to exclude by VMware Custom Attribute. To help you with that method of excluding disks, the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client includes a Virtual Disk Exclusion Wizard. You can use it to add a Custom Attribute to a virtual machine or virtual machines. NetBackup then can exclude the virtual disks that are identified in that Attribute from backups. For more information, see the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client Guide available through the following URL: