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Joe_Melbourne
Level 2
10 years ago

D2D2T through SAN

The scenario desired is this: - Backup Exec Media Server installed within Virtual Machine (VMWare) - SAN Storage used as Backup Target (LUNs) - Tape library connected to SAN fro tape out ...
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  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    10 years ago

    Also we do not support backing up windows (or VMware data) as part of 3-way NDMP we only support NDMP data - as such CraigVs other suggestion (whilst trying to think out of the box)  will not help.

     

    Best/fully supported suggestion for you is

    1) Implement a physical media server with direct (HBA) access to the same SAN storage that holds your other VMs

    2) Add a second SAN storage  device to your media server (to avoid the bottlenecks and to minimize exposure to loss of the disk array being loss of VMs and backup images at the same time)

    3) Connect your SAN attached tape library to the media serevr so that you can duplicate to tape.

    4) Configure SAN Transport VMware backup to the 2nd disk storage as a target (possibly using Deduplication if you need)

    5) Configure appropriate duplicate to tape jobs to get the data on tape

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Colin_Weaver
Moderator
10 years ago

Also we do not support backing up windows (or VMware data) as part of 3-way NDMP we only support NDMP data - as such CraigVs other suggestion (whilst trying to think out of the box)  will not help.

 

Best/fully supported suggestion for you is

1) Implement a physical media server with direct (HBA) access to the same SAN storage that holds your other VMs

2) Add a second SAN storage  device to your media server (to avoid the bottlenecks and to minimize exposure to loss of the disk array being loss of VMs and backup images at the same time)

3) Connect your SAN attached tape library to the media serevr so that you can duplicate to tape.

4) Configure SAN Transport VMware backup to the 2nd disk storage as a target (possibly using Deduplication if you need)

5) Configure appropriate duplicate to tape jobs to get the data on tape