Abiquo 4.6.1 introduces a new backup plugin to support Dell EMC Networker.
The Abiquo integration:
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Configure Networker
To configure networker, do the following steps:
Summary of how to configure the plugin:
- Design the sites and note the names of the hypervisors for each site
- Configure Dell EMC Networker: create the policy and workflow for each site
- Configure backup plugin properties
- Set the location of the backup plugin properties file in abiquo.properties.
In the initial version, the supported configurations for the plugin are as follows.
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Operation
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Avamar Plugin
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Veeam Plugin
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Configure schedules on deploy
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Configure schedules on reconfigure
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Deconfigure schedules on undeploy
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Execute on demand backup
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Restore
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List backup and restore results
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Check expired results
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Constraint
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Avamar Plugin
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Veeam Plugin
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Reconfigure schedules in power on state
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Restore a VM in power on state
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Configure plugin properties
Configure the plugin in the networker.properties file. The default location of this file is opt/abiquo/config/networker.properties.
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- Design your backup system with two sites
- For each site make a list of the hypervisor names (e.g. esxi1.example.com)
- Create one policy with two workflows – one for each site using backup (with or without replication/clone action)
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- The Abiquo integration supports Complete backups only and it does not manage Networker policies.
Configure Networker properties
To configure the Networker backup integration properties:
- Log in to the Abiquo Remote Services server.
- Go to the /opt/abiquo/config folder and create a networker.properties file. This is the default location, but you can configure your own file as required.
- Enter the properties as described here. Default values are set and optional properties are commented out with a hash mark "#".
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# Host name of the vCenter used with the Networker backup tool
abiquo.networker.vcenter.hostname=
# List of hosts to define site A (which is the group of VMs on these hypervisors to back up), separated by commas.
# Enter hypervisor machine names, for example, "esxi1,example.com,esxi2.example.com".
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.siteA.hosts=
# List of hosts to define site B (which is the group of VMs on these hypervisors to back up), separated by commas.
# Enter hypervisor machine names, for example, "esxi3,example.com,esxi4.example.com".
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.siteB.hosts=
# Policy Name for on-demand backups without replication.
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.backup.ondemand.policy=
# Policy Name for on-demand backups with replication.
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.backup.ondemand.policy.replication=
# Workflow within a policy to back up to for replication of site A.
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.backup.workflow.replicationA=
# Workflow within a policy to back up to for replication of site B.
# Reloadable property
abiquo.networker.backup.workflow.replicationB=
# Track on-demand backup and restore operations at this interval
# in the configured time unit
#abiquo.networker.client.tracker.interval=1
# Fail on-demand backup and restore operations after no response
# in the configured time unit
#abiquo.networker.client.tracker.timeout=30
# Time unit for tracking on-demand backup and restore operations
#abiquo.networker.client.tracker.timeunit=minutes
# Duration to store cache of Networker data
#abiquo.networker.cache.expire.duration=90
# Time unit for duration to store cache of Networker data
#abiquo.networker.cache.expire.duration=minutes
# Period for reloading the properties that are reloadable to avoid tomcat restarts
#abiquo.networker.config.reload.period=60
# Time unit for period for reloading properties that are reloadable to avoid
# tomcat restarts
#abiquo.networker.config.reload.timeunit=minutes
# If true, log debug information for Networker client
#abiquo.networker.client.debuglog=false
# If true, verify SSL for Networker client
#abiquo.netwoker.client.verifyssl=false |
Configure Abiquo Properties
To activate the Networker plugin and define the location of the configuration file:
Log in to the Abiquo Remote Services server
- Edit the abiquo.properties file.
- Set the path to the plugin properties file using
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abiquo.backup.networker.config.path = /opt/abiquo/config/networker.properties |
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