The San Client and Snapshotting are separate features, with 6.5 they are
packaged with the Enterprise Client. 

Here the blurb on the CDW website

NetBackup introduces a new client called the Enterprise Client, which
combines all of advanced capabilities in one easy package. NetBackup
Enterprise Client includes NetBackup Client, Bare Metal Restore, Client
Encryption SAN Media Server, SAN Client, Snapshot Client, and VMware VCB.

The NetBackup client resides on the same server as the application,
database, or files that are being protected and sends data to a NetBackup
server for protection or receives data during a recovery.

The NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality provides all the files and
services necessary to perform system recovery, including the ability to
perform diskless network booting, temporary OS installation, and disk
configuration. This feature boasts a complete system recovery time of
approximately 15 minutes on any platform.

Data is encrypted at the source/client to provide a very high level of data
security while in transit over the network and on storage media. Client
Encryption is ideal for protecting smaller, yet dedicated clients and
databases. It supports a variety of encryption algorithms, including 128-bit
and 256-bit and legacy 40-bit and 56-bit encryption methods.

The NetBackup SAN Media Server is designed for customers who would prefer to
utilize their Storage Area Network (SAN) for backup operations instead of
their Local Area Network (LAN). The NetBackup SAN Media Server enables
LAN-free data protection with high-performance access to shared resources.

The SAN client offloads backup traffic from the LAN and allows for fast
backups over the SAN at approximately 150MB/sec. The SAN client can send
data to a variety of Symantec new disk options and allows you to back up and
restore to disk over the SAN. Data is sent to media servers via SCSI
commands over the SAN rather than TCP/IP over the LAN to optimize
performance. SAN Clients are supported on all major platforms.

NetBackup Snapshot Client enables low-impact backup and recovery for
databases and applications. By enabling users to leverage a variety of
software or hardware snapshot capabilities, this client can greatly reduce
the amount of data being transferred during backup and recovery as well as
dramatically improve backup performance and recovery time for
mission-critical databases and applications.

The innovative NetBackup integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
enables a single backup of VMware images to deliver granular file-level
recovery or full image-level recovery, reducing both the time and cost of
VMware data protection.


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Tanuja
Korlepra
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:07 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN only communication between a client and
amediaserver ?


Hi Ludovic,
NetBackup 6.5 released a new feature called "SAN Client".
It enables very fast san based communication/data transfers between clients
and media servers. 
 
Thanks,
Tanuja
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of ldrolez
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 3:50 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] SAN only communication between a client and a
mediaserver ?


Hi !
It seems that the only way to have "san only" communications between a
client and a media server is to use the "snapshot client" option. Can
someone confirm this ? In that case VxFS or VxVM is a must ?

TIA,

  Ludovic.

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