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NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Protecting VMs using hardware snapshots and replication

This section includes the following topics:
  • About virtual machines and hardware snapshots

  • Deployment and architecture

  • Features and applications supported

  • Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication

  • Operations supported with hardware snapshot

  • Configuring a VMware policy to use hardware snapshots

  • Configuring a VMware policy to use NetBackup snapshot manager replication

  • Jobs in the Activity Monitor that use hardware snapshot for VMs

  • Notes and limitations

  • Troubleshooting with VMware hardware snapshot and replication operations

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