Hi Howard,
I'm sure you must have found solution by now.
Still wanted to tell you that what you are trying to achive is possible as long as you are using VADP (vStorage API for Data Protection) not VCB.
The reason is VCB server needs the staging loction but VMware Backup Host does not.
Only thing you need to keep in mind is the LUNS of the specific ESX Datastore/Cluster needs to be presented to the VMware Backup host at the time of backup in order to run backup on SAN else you can always go for NBD without problem.
Let me know if my response was of any help to you.
Best Regards.
Anurag
From: hgraylin AT cspire DOT com
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:40:58 +0000
Subject: [Veritas-bu] VMware backup host
Does a media server that’s designated as a VMware off-host backup need to be attached to storage? The reason for asking is that my current server used for VMware backups is broken and I’ve been working with support to fix it for at least 2 weeks. I found
another server and installed Windows 2008 R2 and Netbackups 7.1.0.4 on it. However…it doesn’t have any storage attached to it. If I set the policy to use this server as the off-host backup server but specify another datastore, will this work?
In essence what I’m trying to do is build a server to handle the Vmware backups, but using another media server to actually write the data. I’m going to look through the VMware admin guide, but also wanted to post the question to the group.
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