vsphere_global.conf Options
Option |
Required |
Default |
Info |
|---|---|---|---|
keep_generation |
No |
100 |
Maximum number of Backup between two Full backups |
profile_all_vm |
No |
vsphere_all_vm.profile |
Internal filename used to store virtual machine profile information |
root_directory |
No |
/opt/bacula/working/vsphere |
Working directory of the vSphere plugin |
vddk_path |
No |
/opt/bacula/bin/vddk |
|
vddk_backup_transport_mode |
No |
hotadd:nbdssl:nbd |
Specify the different transport method to try with the VDDK service during backup. Available with 14.0.1. See the VMWare Disk Transport Library documentation for the list of values. |
vddk_restore_transport_mode |
No |
hotadd:nbdssl:nbd |
Specify the different transport method to try with the VDDK service during restore Available with 14.0.1. See the VMWare Disk Transport Library documentation for the list of values. |
username |
Yes |
Username allowed to connect to vSphere |
|
password |
Yes |
Username password allowed to connect to vSphere |
|
hpassword |
No |
Username obscured password allowed to connect to vSphere. Read more here. |
|
timeout |
No |
60 seconds |
Connection timeout (available since version 8.2.9) used to contact the vSphere server in seconds. The timeout with internal file locking is 10x the value (available since version 8.4.15). |
thumbprint |
Yes |
SSL Thumbprint of the vSphere server (required for vSphere 6.0 and above) |
|
server |
Yes |
vSphere ESXi server used for Backup |
|
url |
Yes |
vSphere ESXi or vCenter server URL used for SOAP call |
|
default_datastore |
No |
datastore1 |
Default datastore for restore |
default_restore_host |
No |
Default ESX server used for restore if multiple ones are available in the vCenter |
|
default_ovf |
No |
Default OVF description used when current OVF fails to be loaded in VMware (available in version 6.2.3-2 and later). |
|
root_directory |
No |
/opt/bacula/working/vsphere |
Directory used to store internal plugin data |
datastore_minimum_space |
No |
Minimum space to keep on a Datastore. ex: 5GB |
|
datastore_allow_overprovisioning |
No |
Yes |
Allow to restore a VM using Over Provisioning. When set to |
datastore_refresh_interval |
No |
600 seconds |
Specify the interval used to refresh storage statistics of the Datastore. |
nfc_host_port |
No |
902 |
Specify the NFC TCP port to contact the ESX server. Available with 8.4.12. |
server_port |
No |
443 |
Specify the HTTPS TCP port to contact the ESX server. Available with 8.4.12. |
checkssl |
No |
No |
Check SSL certificate with vSphere server. Available with 16.0.3. |
The index feature will generate records in the Catalog to quickly
seek to a given block in the backup stream. The granularity of the index
can be controlled with the Storage Daemon device directive
MaximumFileIndex. The default value is 100MB.
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See also
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