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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Configure NetBackup policies for VMware
Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Configure NetBackup policies for VMware

This section includes the following topics:
  • Configuring a VMware policy from the Policy Wizard

  • Configuring a VMware policy from the Policies utility

  • Limit jobs per policy on the Attributes tab (for VMware)

  • VMware backup options

  • Exclude Disks tab

  • Browse for VMware virtual machines

  • Limiting the VMware servers that NetBackup searches when browsing for virtual machines

  • Virtual machine host names and display names should be unique if VMs are selected manually in the policy

  • Primary VM identifier option and manual selection of virtual machines

  • About incremental backups of virtual machines

  • Configuring incremental backups

  • Storage Foundation Volume Manager volumes in the virtual machine

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