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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide
  5. Protecting Exchange Server data with VMware backups
  7. About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator's Guide

About configuring a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication

Use the following steps to configure a NetBackup for VMware backup that protects Exchange Server and use Replication Director to manage snapshot replication. This feature requires the NetBackup Replication Director license.

Table: Steps to configure a VMware backup that protects Exchange Server, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication

Step

Action

Description

Step 1

Configure your VMware environment and add the necessary licenses.

See the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

On each ESX server that hosts the database, add the NetBackup for Exchange license and the Enterprise Client license.

Install the NetBackup client software on the virtual machines that have Exchange running.

Step 2

Install the Veritas VSS provider.

See Installing the Veritas VSS provider for vSphere.

Step 3

Create a storage lifecycle policy (SLP).

See the NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide.

Step 4

Configure the NetBackup Client Service to log on with an account that has access to the NetApp filer.

To browse and restore granular items in the VMware backup snapshot copy, you must configure the logon account for NetBackup Client Service. This account must have access to the CIFS shares that are created on the NetApp disk array.

See Configuring NetBackup with access to the CIFS share on the NetApp disk array.

Step 5

If you want to restore individual mailbox and public folder items from the VMware backup, review the requirements for granular recovery.

See Configuring Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with a VMware backup that protects Exchange, using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication.

Step 6

Configure a VMware policy with an SLP storage unit and enable Replication Director.

Create a policy as follows:

  • Select the VMware policy type.

  • Select the storage lifecycle policy (SLP) that you want to use. This SLP must be configured for snapshot replication.

  • Select Use Replication Director.

  • Note that if you want to truncate logs, you must first perform a full backup without log truncation.

    See Notes for configuration of VMware policies that protect Exchange Server.

  • Granular recovery is automatically provided for any VMware backups that protect Exchange. You do not need to enable it in the policy.

See Configuring a VMware policy to back up Exchange Server using Replication Director to manage snapshot replication.

For complete details on how to configure Replication Director with VMware backups, see the NetBackup Replication Director Solutions Guide.

Step 7

On the NetBackup server, configure the mappings for distributed application restores.

For backups in a DAG or cluster or if you use a proxy host, you must map the application hosts and component hosts in your environment. For example, each DAG node must be able to access a backup image using the DAG name. Configure these mappings in the Distributed Application Restore Mapping host property on the master server.

See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine .

Step 8

On the NetBackup server, review the auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment.

In certain scenarios, a NetBackup host has additional host names or shares a particular name with other hosts. For example, each DAG node must be mapped to the DAG name. Approve each valid Auto-Discovered Mapping that NetBackup discovers in your environment. Perform this configuration in the Host Management properties on the master server.

See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.

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