Installation with Package Manager

Due to VMware vSphere library dependencies, vSphere Plugin packages are available for a limited number of platforms (check the list here). Make a request from your Customer Portal to access the vSphere Plugin.

Installation can be performed using apt-get or yum/dnf with the package names below if you have added the vSphere Plugin to your Bacula repositories. Otherwise, download the packages and install them manually as below:

rpm -ivh bacula-enterprise-vsphere-vixdisk*.rpm

rpm -ivh bacula-enterprise-vsphere-16.*.rpm

These packages will ensure that your Bacula Enterprise 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