Thank you once again Jonathan.

I am being told that 6.5.1 includes VMWare support for Master / Media,
but I have not found any proof of this, so I may raise a call with
Symantec to get full confirmation.

not sure I like the idea of a Master server being a VM box myself.

Simon 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

 The Netbackup 6 OS Compatibility Matrix lists VMWare explicitly and the
only servers they support are NOM and VBR.  They also list support for
VMWare Guest Clients running the appropriate OS agent but no other
servers are listed.  I looked into this when we purchased VMWare and the
only solution I could come up with for Vming your Master servers (and it
would still be unsupported) was to use NAS Storage, iSCSI or VTLs that
"look" like disk.  VMWare confirmed no support for any tape devices or
local SCSI devices except DISK.  I did look a bit into RedHat support
for a virtual master server configuration using their flavor of Xen and
it looked plausible, but I never had the time to fully follow-up with an
SE or read the whitepapers.

-Jonathan

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Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

> > Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a 
> > Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a

> > tape library?

> A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that 
> VMware does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has

> no plans to do so. Some fiddling around managed to get a guest to see 
> such tape drives, but they did not work reliably at all.

> Do you happen to have any Technotes about this? or any forum links ?

Only what we were told by the HP and VMware support folks when we were
trying to come up with a backup solution for a proposed virtual 1tb file
server. We could not come up with any workable solution because of the
lack of SAN-attached tape drive support and the inability of the VMware
consolidated backup proxy to do multi-stream backups. Neither of these
bits of information were easy to get out of them.

                                                                      -
Bluejay Adametz
 
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AhA!... 
Ho-hum... 
Oy Vey!... and Yum, Yum. These illustrate the four basic states of
consciousness." 
                                                       - David Brin, in
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