- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Introduction
- Configuration and Setup
- Best practices
- (Optional) Configuring support for multiple vCenters
- Installing Avamar Administrator software
- Configure vCenter-to-Avamar authentication
- Creating a dedicated vCenter user account
- Add a vCenter as an Avamar client in the AUI
- Register or add a proxy client
- Edit vCenter
- Auto-discovery of virtual machines
- Deploying proxies using Proxy Deployment Manager from AUI
- Upgrading proxies
- Maintaining proxies
- Monitor proxy status
- Import custom certificate in Avamar VMware Image Backup Proxy
- Security patch updates for proxies
- Additional Avamar server configuration
- Administration
- Clients and containers
- Add a VMware client
- Delete a VMware client
- Enable changed block tracking
- Viewing protected virtual machines in Avamar Administrator
- Viewing a replicated virtual machine name in Avamar Administrator
- Monitoring the vCenter connection in Avamar Administrator
- Manually synchronize the AUI with vCenter and VM clients
- Rename a vCenter client
- VMware Image Dataset
- Adding guest backup throttling parameters to a dataset in Avamar Administrator
- Groups
- Changing proxy datastore and group assignments in Avamar Administrator
- Backup
- Limitations
- Perform an on-demand backup of a virtual machine by using AUI
- Set advanced plug-in options in the AUI
- Schedule backups using the AUI Policy wizard
- Log truncation backups
- Monitor backups
- Cancel backups
- Support for vCenter HA failover for inflight backups
- Configure a backup to support VMware encryption
- Configure a backup to support vSAN encryption
- Enforcement of backups to Data Domain
- Restore
- Image and file-level restore guidelines
- Image backup overview
- File Level Restore
- Performance improvements for File Level Restore
- File-level restore supported configurations
- RSA SecurID authentication in the AUI
- File Level Restore troubleshooting and limitations
- File Level Restore (FLR) in the AUI
- Restore ACL for non-root user configuration
- Perform a File Level Restore (FLR) operation by using the Data Protection Backup and Recovery File Level Restore (FLR) UI
- Backup Validation
- Protecting the vCenter Management Infrastructure
- vCenter deployments overview
- Best practices for backup and restore
- Protecting an embedded PSC
- Protecting external deployment models
- vCenter server appliance(s) with one external PSC where PSC fails
- vCenter server appliance is lost but the PSC remains
- vCenter server appliance with multiple PSCs where one PSC is lost, one remains
- vCenter server appliance remains but all PSCs fail
- vCenter server appliance remains but multiple PSCs fail
- vCenter server appliance fails
- vCenter server restore workflow
- Platform Services Controller restore workfow
- Command reference
- Support for vCenter HA failover for inflight backups
- Additional considerations
- Protecting ESX Hosts
- Avamar Image Backup and Recovery for VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Avamar image backup and recovery for VMware Cloud on AWS
- Configure the VMware Cloud on AWS web portal console
- Amazon AWS web portal requirements
- vCenter server inventory requirements
- Deploy the vProxy OVA on a vCenter server in VMware Cloud on AWS
- Configure vCenter-to-Avamar authentication for VMware Cloud on AWS
- Avamar image backup and restore for VMware Cloud on AWS best practices
- Unsupported Avamar operations
- Backing up VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Components on VxRail
- Manually deploying proxies
- Overview
- Downloading the proxy appliance template file
- Deploying the proxy appliance in vCenter
- Deploying a proxy appliance in vCenter using the vSphere Web Client
- Registering and activating the proxy with the Avamar server
- Configuring proxy settings in Avamar Administrator
- Performing optional proxy performance optimization
- vSphere Data Ports
- Using VMware vRealize Log Insight
- Plug-in Options
- Troubleshooting
- Installation and configuration problems and solutions
- Backup problems and solutions
- Backup does not start
- Exclude the proxy from the virtual machine backup if performing the backup with other VMware software
- Backups fail with No Proxy errors
- Changed block tracking does not take effect
- Proxies are not assigned to backup jobs
- VM snapshot fails backups due to incorrect pre-evaluation of available space
- Backup and restore of vFlash Read Cache enabled VMs will use NBD transport mode
- Exchange log truncation unsupported when VMDK is encrypted via vSphere
- Indexing VMware image backups requires HotAdd transport mode
- Proxy status alert
- Restore problems and solutions
- Glossary
Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide
Viewing datastore assignments and group membership
Steps
-
In Avamar Administrator, click the
Administration
launcher link.
The Administration window is displayed.
- Click the Account Management tab.
- Locate the proxy and note the domain.
-
Select a proxy and click
Edit.
The Edit Client dialog box appears.
- Click the Datastores tab and note which datastores are selected.
- Click the Groups tab and note which groups are selected.
- Uncheck all groups in preparation for deleting this proxy.
- Click OK.
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