You can configure and add VMware services such as NSX server to the VMware hypervisor to backup and restore NSX tags associated with the VMware vCenter virtual machines.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.
The Virtual machines page appears.
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Click the hypervisor.
The hypervisor page appears.
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On the Configuration tab, in the Credentials for VMware Services area, do the following:
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Click the edit button
.The VMware Services dialog box appears.
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Click Add server.
The Edit service credentials dialog box appears.
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For Name, enter a descriptive name for the credentials.
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For Hostname, enter the hostname of the NSX server.
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For Credentials, select existing credentials or create new credentials.
Steps to create credentials
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Click the add button
.The Add credential dialog box appears.
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For Credential Vault, select the credential vault to save the credentials in.
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In Credential name, enter a descriptive name for the credentials.
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In User account, enter the name of the user account that has permissions to do the following:
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Access the vCenter, ESX servers, datastores, and virtual machines—as well as the volumes, files, and folders within virtual machines
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Obtain the account credentials or get access to saved credentials
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Perform discovery, backup, and restore operations
For more information, see Configuration of vSphere User Accounts.
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In Password, enter the password for the user account.
Verify that the vSphere password for the hypervisor does not contain any of the following special characters or any non-ASCII characters: ampersand (&), semicolon (;), double quotation mark ("), single quotation mark ('), caret (^), backslash (\), percentage sign (%), left angle bracket (<), right angle bracket (>).
For more information, see the VMware KB article vSphere 5.5 Single Sign-On Issues due to Special Characters in administrator@vsphere.local password (2060637).
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In Description, enter a description of the credentials.
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Click Save.
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