Massive data transfer through virtual HBA is reportedly
difficult. Bare metal might be better.
If this is a true Master Server, not a Media Server, I'm going
to guess there's no issues. If this, however, needs to access tape drives, you
might want to investigate the limitations of virtual HBAs or using those
pass-thru devices I think they support now.
BTW, I'm far from being an ESX expert.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dean
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:03 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Converting physical Linux master to virtual
Mark's post about converting a standalone master to
clustered prompted me to post this.
Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3.
Since Symantec will now support virtual master servers, we're planning to
convert it to a virtualised host running under VMware. The main reason we want
to do this is to simplify DR.
Of course, the virtual master won't be doing any actual backups. The current
physical master will be converted to a media server, and keep performing the
backups it currently does as a master. The virtual master will keep the same
hostname as the physical master. It will really just host the catalog and
trigger schedules.
Ultimately, we'd put it under SRM control so we have cross-site failover of the
master server for DR.
Has anyone done something similar? Anything I should look out for?
Thanks,
Dean
