Options for selecting Hyper-V virtual machines
This topic describes the options on the policy Clients tab for Hyper-V policies.
You can use these options to manually select virtual machines, or to configure NetBackup to select virtual machines automatically. For automatic selection, you specify the selection criteria (rules) in the policy's Query Builder. When the backup job runs, NetBackup discovers the virtual machines that currently meet the criteria and backs up those virtual machines.
A procedure is available:
See Creating a Hyper-V policy for automatic virtual machine selection.
Table: Virtual machine selection options (not available on the Backup Policy Configuration Wizard panel)
Option | Description |
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Server Type | Select the type of environment in which NetBackup searches for the VMs to back up. |
Server Name | Enter the name of the Hyper-V server or SCVMM server. For a clustered environment, note:
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Select manually | Click this option and click to manually enter virtual machines names, or to browse and select them from a list. See Browse for Hyper-V virtual machines. Note: The rest of the fields and options are for automatic selection of virtual machines. |
Select automatically through Hyper-V Intelligent Policy query | Click this option to allow NetBackup to automatically select virtual machines for backup based on the rules that you enter in the Query Builder. |
Table: Query Builder
Option | Description |
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Query Builder (Join, Field, Operator, Values) | Use these pull-down fields to define rules for automatic selection of virtual machines. From left to right, each pull-down refines the rule. Click the plus sign to add the rule to the Query pane. Click the reset icon (curved arrow) to blank out the pull-down fields. |
Advanced | Places the Query Builder in Advanced Mode for manual entry of rules. See Using the Query Builder in Advanced Mode. |
Basic | Returns the Query Builder from Advanced Mode to Basic Mode. |
Edit | Use this option to change an existing query rule when in Basic Mode, as follows:
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Remove | Deletes a query rule when in Basic Mode. Click on the rule and then click . |
Test Query | Click this option to test which virtual machines NetBackup selects based on the rules in the Query Builder. Note: This test option does not create the backup list for the policy. When the next backup runs from this policy, NetBackup re-discovers virtual machines and consults the query rules. At that time, NetBackup backs up the virtual machines that match the rules. See Test Query screen for Hyper-V. As an alternative, you can use the nbdiscover command to test a query. Refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide. |