Configuration

The following chapter presents the information on how to configure the vSphere Plugin and how to configure a vSphere backup job.

Enable VMware Integration Feature

To enable VMware Integration support, use yum with the package names listed below, provided that you have incorporated the vSphere Plugin into your Bacula repositories, as shown:

# yum install bacula-enterprise-vsphere-vixdisk
# yum install bacula-enterprise-vsphere

These packages will guarantee that your Bacula Enterprise Edition version is compatible with the vSphere Plugin and will install the vsphere-ctl, vddk, and vsphere-fd programs.

# cd /opt/bacula
/opt/bacula # ls plugins/vsphere-fd.so bin/vsphere-ctl* bin/vddk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 551890 10 nov. 15:13 plugins/vsphere-fd.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3551890 10 nov. 15:13 bin/vsphere-ctl.jar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 10 nov. 15:13 bin/vsphere-ctl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3551890 10 nov. 15:13 bin/vddk

To verify that the VMware Integration Feature is available, examine the BWeb “Configuration -> Health Overview” and scroll down the page to the section titled “Checking Available Features”. The “VMware Integration Support” should be listed as available.