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.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: 06 June 2008 13:01
To: Stefaan Margot;
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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:
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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)
If I'm not mistaken I
think the Symantec configuration doc says the same thing.
-Jonathan
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[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