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> On Behalf Of tkutil
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:36 AM
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> Subject: [Networker] VCB & Networker
> 
> I have another physical server that I can use as a storage node, but
do I have to
> have the tape on the storage node or can I still use the NW server?
> 

No you don't need the vcb server to see any tape/vtl - you just need NW
to see it listed/installed as a storage node. NW will use the lan in
this case as I noted from Fazil's comments in a prior post..  

> I would assume this.
> 
> Storage Node is connected to SAN LAN
> Storage Node is configured for VCB
> Storage Node is a client of NW server
> 
> NW Server starts group the Storage Node belongs to and runs
save_vcb.bat which
> copies VM from SAN to local drive on Storage Node. The NW server then
backs up
> the storage node and the vm's copied to it.
> 

Yes, but only the exported vm files are backed up to nw, not the vcb
server itself (we don't' backup the vcb server at all actually)....

To restore vcb's, afaik, it's still a two-step process  - restore the vm
files from NW to network share/local disk, then use vmware converter to
import back to esx. Very handy for testing/restoring files even with
full image backups, as you can bring the vm into a separate vswitch/vlan
and fully test it recovery-wise, but can also be bad if you are in a
time crunch and the vm is large, as the converter always uses the LAN
afaik... :(

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