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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup (Virtualized Master & Media Servers)
2011-12-18 05:35:58
Oh, and I forgot to say that the virtualised master server doesn't do ANY backups, other than it's own catalog backups.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Dean <dean.deano AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
We recently faced this question when designing a brand new data centre. We decided there was not much point in virtualising the media servers, since they are just I/O machines and will probably (hopefully) saturate SOME part of the infrastructure they're running on, be it inbound network, outband I/O to disk/tape, or the bus on the server's motherboard. The ONLY physical (non-virtualised) servers in this new data centre are our NBU media servers.
The NBU master however is virtual, and we recently did a site fail-over test of the master using VMware SRM, and it worked just fine. (Cisco UCS, VMware 4.1, NBU 7.1, RHEL6)
As another data point, I just completed vSphere 5 training this week, and the very knowledgeable instructor said "These days, the only thing that obviously shouldn't be virtualised is backup servers".
Cheers
Dean
I work for Sony Playstation and we are
moving a racked stand-alone Master & Media server configuration to
a new data center.
I am on version 7.1 and am considering
virtualizing the entire infrastructure. Has anyone successfully done
this yet and did you run into any gotchas?
Regards
Brian
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