Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4
2011-05-02 13:39:53
Thanks for the clarification George. The guide says the
datastore must be available to the backup host several times on pgs 17
(diagram) ,23 (Table 2-1) & 24 (Notes). Perhaps I should have read a bit
further on pg 24 “A SAN connection between the backup host and the
datastore is optional if you use the NBD transfer type or NBDSSL transfer type.”
-Jonathan
From: George Winter
[mailto:george_winter AT symantec DOT com]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:14 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; nbu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4
Hi Jonathan.
You can implement the NetBackup for VMware solution on any
storage that is supported by VMware. If you have a non-shared storage
environment such as NAS or DAS storage, you can backup your VMs using network
based backups. NetBackup implements this as the NBD transport type.
You lose no backup or restore functionality when implementing this transport
type.
-George Winter
Symantec Corporation
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 8:29 AM
To: nbu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4
I was just reading through the NetBackup for VMware 7.1
Administrator’s Guide and it looks to me like there are no options to
implement this policy type other than at locations that have shared VM storage
(by presenting the luns to the master.) This seems very strange to me, given
that tons of other solutions allow the backup of .vmdk files across the network
without shared storage. Does anyone know if Symantec plans to change this in
the future? We are actively deploying ESX to the field in small / non-clustered
configurations (without shared storage) and I’m being pressed on why we
can’t backup the .VMDKs directly.
-Jonathan
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