Stefan,

The proxy/backup server/datamover/whateverIBMiscallingitnow is not a VM, so 
hotadd is not an option. Agree that NBD isn't ideal, but the customer has NAS 
VM storage, so it's either NBD or hotadd.

Steve

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] on behalf of Stefan 
Folkerts [stefan.folkerts AT GMAIL DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:11
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM4VE NBD data path

Hi Steven,

I haven't but why not multihome the datamover vm and try to let it connect
to the storage & vCenter server that way?
I might be missing something but why would you want to use NBD over hotadd?

Regards,
  Stefan

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Stackwick, Stephen <
Stephen.Stackwick AT icfi DOT com> wrote:

> I have a customer with a VMware environment using NFS storage. He has a
> dedicated private network connecting his ESX hosts to his network storage.
> He wondered if it was possible to attach the backup/proxy server to this
> private LAN, in order to isolation the backup traffic. Has anyone tried
> this? The problem I see is that the proxy wants to talk to vCenter, and
> vCenter isn't reachable on the storage interface. It seems if you ditched
> the vCenter plugin approach, and manually configured the datamover dsm.opt
> files to point to ESX server IP addresses, it might work, right?
>
> Steve
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