VCB needs to be a physical server. I installed and configured on my networker 
server and now I'm having problems with my autochanger. Don't know if it's 
related but I'm having inventory problems and waiting for a writable tape 
error. 

My question is does the VCB proxy have to reside on the networker server or can 
it be any physical server?



kgehring wrote:
> I believe that VMWare recommends having a dedicated server for VCB
> (Win2k3 sp1 to be precise). We tried out this root and decided on a
> 3rd party solution. It works OK but could be better.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:28 AM, tkimball
> <networker-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote:
> 
> > James Pratt wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Yes you also need to zone your networker server into your SAN fabric
> > > along with the ESX luns. (Nervous yet?! - Read the VCB guide first,
> > > especially if you are running RDM's in your ESX - this is very
> > > important, as you must disable windows auto-mount for disk volumes and
> > > do not run any MPIO software such as powerpath on the vcb server! - Also
> > > read vmware's VCB manual very carefully!)
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Interesting.  I kinda skimmed over the VCB docs recently but apparently 
> > missed the 'NW server on same SAN' part.  At that point I'd be more 
> > inclined to make one of the various VMWare servers (perhaps the secondary 
> > VirtualCenter system) a storage node and use that to service VM backups.
> > 
> > Are there problems with such a method?
> > 
> > --TSK
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