Gidday,
With respect to
>You have to use a
media server running on Windows as vStorage API is currently only embeded
into such platform. This is actually a limitation due to VMware, not NBU.
That's not my understanding at all.
You do unequivocally have to have a Windows
server to backup from, but it doesn't have to be a Media server. I
can just be, for example your vCentre Server (which I'm sure is Windows
- it still doesn't run on any other platform does it??). I'm the
first to admit I could be wrong, but I believe you just need a Windows
server that has a NetBackup client and the ability to access all the LUNs
your guests are stored on. Which is why I'm planning on using our
vCentre Server as its virtualised and can see all LUNs; and it sounds like
the idea machine for you to use too.
I'm only in early stages of planning, but
I'm confident above is the gist of it, infrastructure-wise. There's
lots of little caveats, such as from what I've seen you can only set it
up to do individual file restores with Windows guests; as mentioned below,
configuring CBT; greatest functionality appears to be with vSphere; etc.
Cheers
Crowey
From:
Bahadir Kiziltan <bahadir.kiziltan AT gmail DOT com>
To:
"Chapman, Scott"
<Scott.Chapman AT icbc DOT com>
Cc:
Veritas <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date:
23/08/2010 03:22
Subject:
Re: [Veritas-bu]
VMware vStorage NetBackup 7 design help
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Hi,
You have to use a media server running on Windows as vStorage API is currently
only embeded into such platform. This is actually a limitation due to VMware,
not NBU.
This is an integration and you don't have to install NBU client inside
VMs. Just create a role in vCenter server, assosciate that role with an
user and add user from NBU management console in order to access vCenter
server and see VM tree.
And remember using CBT (changed block tracking) feature which helps you
backing up VMs extremely fast.
You can't technically use SAN Client to backup VMs by leveraging vStorage
API.
Bahadir.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Chapman, Scott <Scott.Chapman AT icbc DOT com>
wrote:
Hello everyone, I'm looking for some design help rather
than specific technical help.
We currently run our NetBackup Master/Media server on a
SUN M5000 with Solaris 10 and NBU 7. Our Windows team is looking
to upgrade the VMware environment to the latest version and we would like
to start using the vStorage API.
Now my issue is that to backup with the vStorage API I
need a Windows "backup host" which is defined as:
"NetBackup for VMware uses a special Windows server
that is called a backup host (formerly called the VMware backup proxy server).
The backup host is a NetBackup client that performs backups on behalf of
the virtual machines. The backup host can also be configured as a NetBackup
master or media server. The backup host is the only host on which
NetBackup client software is installed. No NetBackup client software
is required on the VMware virtual machines.
Note that the backup host is referred to as the recovery
host when it performs a restore. "
I'm trying to understand my options for this windows machine.
1) I could install media server binaries on it and
attach a couple of tape drives, issues with this would be
a) one more netbackup media server to administer ie upgrade, patch
etc
b) a windows server that would need windows patches thus impacting
the netbackup environment
c) licensing costs associated with a media server
Do I have any other options for getting the VMware backups
off to tape?
Is it possible to use a SAN client or something and attach
tape drives to that... then at least it's just a NetBackup client rather
than a NetBackup server. My concern with this would be that I can't
directly attach the tape drives and I'd have to install the fiber transport
stuff onto my Solaris master server and have it run the backups to tape.
I would like to hear what other people are doing or planning.
Thanks!
Scott Chapman
Senior Technical Specialist
Storage and Database Administration
ICBC - Victoria
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