Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5

Also, I have a feeling that this (IF it works) would be like teaching a dog to walk on his hind legs… Possible, but not the most efficient way.

A media server lives to move data, and the more direct and unobstructed access to the hardware, the better

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5

More ammo ........

VMware itself will NOT support fibre channel tape drives and tape libraries.

I've actually tested this. We got a FC tape drives to work at the windows 2003 OS level, could see a media changer (tape lib). Netbackup would back to the tape drives as standalones, but couldn't restore. HP TTL software didn't like FC devices on vmware.

Like others have said ...check the the 6.5 Release Notes. They probably have been updated last week with the release of 6.5.1 MP. i.e you can argue the reference is the latest you will get. If it ain't supported and you implement you have voided any support that you will receive from Symantec i.e they will not be interested helping you.

Jim

On 12/11/07, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:

Guys
Quick 2 questions:

1) Does Symantec support NetBackup 5.1 or 6.5 in a virtualised environment?
(ie: Master or Media Server on a Vmware host)?
2) Can anyone clarify if NT4.0 is supported with 6.5 ?

Thanks,

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator

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