[Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-24 Thread mitch808
I'm pretty sure George's UCS setup was using SAN and not NBD. +-- |This was sent by mnab...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-18 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Just wanted to follow-up on this older thread I started a few weeks back and say that nbd for VMware (non-shared storage) is working as intended at impressive speeds. I've got approximately 50GB of Windows test VMs and they are consistently pulling 60MB/sec. Granted this is an idle test system and

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread mitch808
I've never run into an environment that used NBDSSL. However, NBD and SAN based VMware backups using VCB or vStorage are quite common. NBD is typically used when you are not using shared storage, and all backup traffic is over the LAN, usually over the console port of the VMware host. It's no

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread Rusty.Major
boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [ mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:39 AM To: George Winter; nbu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4 Thanks for the clarification George. The guide says the datastore must be available t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread Chapman, Scott
Martin, Jonathan Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:39 AM To: George Winter; nbu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4 Thanks for the clarification George. The guide says the datastore must be available to the backup host several times on pgs 17 (diagram) ,23 (Table 2-1) & 24 (Notes). Per

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan
al if you use the NBD transfer type or NBDSSL transfer type." -Jonathan From: George Winter [mailto:george_win...@symantec.com] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:14 PM To: Martin, Jonathan; nbu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4 Hi Jonathan. You can implement the NetBackup for V

Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread George Winter
: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4 I was just reading through the NetBackup for VMware 7.1 Administrator's Guide and it looks to me like there are no options to implement this policy type other than at locations that have shared VM storage (by presenting the luns to the master.) This seems

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

2011-05-02 Thread Martin, Jonathan
I was just reading through the NetBackup for VMware 7.1 Administrator's Guide and it looks to me like there are no options to implement this policy type other than at locations that have shared VM storage (by presenting the luns to the master.) This seems very strange to me, given that tons of othe