Backup multiple storage groups on EMC VNX 5300 via NBU 5230?
Hello. I have a problem I need resolved and hoping someone out there has a EMC VNX series SAN who has successfully figured this out.
We recently purchased a 40TB Netbackup 5230 solution and will be backing up our VMware clusters which their data is stored on the VNX SAN. This is fiber channel. I have the Netbackup appliance already zoned through our switch fabric and am successfully backing up one of our VMware ESXi 5.5 clusters.
I added the Netbackup appliance to the storage group of the VM cluster and all is well. My issue is that now I need to backup our other VM cluster which is a different storage group on the VNX. Any of you who know EMC/VNX know that a host can only be assigned to one storage group at a time. So my question is simply this. Given I have a EMC VNX 5300 (fiber channel) and a Netbackup 5230 how can I backup multiple storage groups at once?
Any help is greatly appreciated as I have hit a dead end with both vendors involved.
This is off the top of my head, but have you considered manually registering the 5230 HBAs to the VNX so they are seen as individual hosts? I forget how to do that specifically, but I seem to recall having done similar things with ESX and VNX before.
You might also consider creating a storage group for the 5230 and put the DS LUNs into that. A LUN can exist in more than one Storage Group, you just can't have a host in more than one Storage Group.
