Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup & VCB over NFS

I’ve encountered the same issue as I am currently evaluating both NetBackup and vRanger Pro (http://www.vizioncore.com/vrangerpro.html ) for backing up VMware environments.

From my VMware guys I understand that the latest release of VCB now supports NFS and vRanger have confirmed that the only reason their software doesn’t work is because they haven’t yet upgraded their plug-in rather than a lack of support for NFS in VCB.

I am still waiting on Symantec to confirm if this will now be supported with the latest VCB version.

Does anyone out there have any more info?

Steve.

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: 06 June 2008 13:01
To: Stefaan Margot; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup & VCB over NFS

I believe LAN mode is direct attached storage (to the virtual host.) Aka. Snap the volume on the virtual host and use the LAN to transfer the image.

I don’t think NFS is a supported configuration.

-Jonathan

From: Stefaan Margot [mailto:stefaan.margot AT pandora DOT be]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:06 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan; 'Stefaan Margot'; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup & VCB over NFS

So “LAN Mode” is NFS?

Van: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] Namens Martin, Jonathan
Verzonden: donderdag 5 juni 2008 23:56
Aan: Stefaan Margot;Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Onderwerp: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup & VCB over NFS

From the VMWare Backup guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_vm_backup.pdf

Page 25:

VMware supports the following two modes of Consolidated Backup:

􀂄 SAN Mode (Fibre Channel and iSCSI)

􀂄 LAN Mode

If I'm not mistaken I think the Symantec configuration doc says the same thing.

-Jonathan

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Stefaan Margot
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:37 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup & VCB over NFS

Hi,

I’m doing a test setup with Netbackup 6.5.1 and ESX.

I want to setup VCB backups with VM hosts on Fibre, iSCSI, and NFS.

Fibre & iSCSI works great … but when I want to backup the VM Hosts that are located on an NFS “voluim”, it doesn’t work.

I get an error 156.

We installed the NFS tools on the VCB proxy and we can mount the host with the vcbmounter tool.

Does anybody know if VM hosts on NFS are supported by Netbackup?

If so, are there special things I should keep in mind?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Stefaan

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