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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Notes and prerequisites
Veritas NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Notes and prerequisites

This section includes the following topics:
  • NetBackup for VMware prerequisites

  • NetBackup for VMware: notes and restrictions

  • Notes on VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols)

  • NetBackup IPv6 parameter required for backups in VMware IPv6 environments

  • NetBackup for VMware: notes on Linux virtual machines

  • Notes on the NetBackup appliance as a VMware backup host

  • NetBackup for VMware support for SAN multi-pathing

  • NetBackup for VMware support for fault tolerant VMs

  • NetBackup character restrictions for the Primary VM identifier

  • In the policy Query Builder, display names, resource pool names, and vApp names are case-sensitive

  • Notes on the hotadd transport mode

  • Notes and limitations for tag usage in VMware Intelligent Policy queries

  • Notes and limitations for the backup and restore of VMware tag associations

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