Add a VMware Provider

Providers are servers that host objects and attributes. Once a provider is registered, an inventory of the provider is captured and added to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, enabling you to perform backup and restore jobs, as well as run reports.

To register a VMware provider:

  1. From the navigation menu, expand Manage Protection, then expand Hypervisors. Expand VMware, then click Backup.
  2. Click Manage vCenter.
  3. Click Add vCenter. The vCenter Properties pane opens.
  4. Populate the fields in the vCenter Properties pane:
  5. Hostname/IP
  6. Enter the resolvable IP address or a resolvable path and machine name.
  7. Use existing user
  8. Enable to select a previously entered username and password for the provider.
  9. Username
  10. Enter your username for the provider.
  11. Password
  12. Enter your password for the provider.
  13. Port
  14. Enter the communications port of the provider you are adding. Select the Use SSL check box to enable an encrypted Secure Socket Layer connection. The typical default port is 80 for non SSL connections or 443 for SSL connections.
  15. Optionally, configure IBM Spectrum Protect Offload functionality in the IBM Spectrum Protect vStorage Backup Server Settings section.
  16. Offloading essentially creates two backups of your data – one on the vSnap server for operational recoveries, and one on the Spectrum Protect server for longer term protection. Once configured here, offloading is enabled through SLA Policies. The offload operation uses data movers from IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments configured nodes.
  17. Select Link to IBM Spectrum Protect.
  18. Populate the fields in the vStorage Backup Server section:
  19. vStorage Backup Server
  20. Enter the location of the system where the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments client GUI and VMCLI are installed.
  21. OS Type
  22. Select the vStorage Backup Server's operating system type. Available options include Windows and Linux.
  23. Use existing user
  24. Enable to select a previously entered username and password for the provider.
  25. vStorage Backup Server Username
  26. Enter your login for the vStorage Backup Server.
  27. vStorage Backup Server Password
  28. Enter your password for the vStorage Backup Server.
  29. Configure additional options in the Options section:
  30. Maximum number of VM's to process concurrently per ESX server and per SLA
  31. Set the maximum number of concurrent virtual machine snapshots to process on the ESX server.
  32. Click Save. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus confirms a network connection, adds the provider to the database, then catalogs the provider.

If a message appears indicating that the connection is unsuccessful, review your entries. If your entries are correct and the connection is unsuccessful, contact a system administrator to review the connections.

To troubleshoot a connection to a hypervisor virtual machine, use the Test function. The Test function verifies communication with the virtual machine and tests DNS settings between the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus appliance and the virtual machine. To test a connection, select a single virtual machine, then click Select Options. Select Use existing user and select a previously entered username and password for the resource. A new Test button appears to the right of the Save button at the bottom of the Options section. Click Test.

Providers are automatically cataloged after registration. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus creates a high-level Inventory job and catalogs the objects on the provider. To manually run an Inventory job, click Run Inventory from the Backup pane.

NEXT STEPS:

  • Assign user permissions to the hypervisor. See Access.

 


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