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Gdd
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13 years ago
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NetBackup Appliance, VMware and multipathing ?

I plan to backup VMware machines on a 5220 Appliance FW 5.2 using SAN transport mode.

My appliance will be connected in a dual path / dual fabric mode to a HP EVA 6100 to access DataStore.

I do not find any technote about "how to configure multipathing" for this Appliance ?

For Linux SLES, there is some updates to /etc/multipath.conf...

Does anyone know where there is documentation about this ?

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  • Helder_Rebelo's avatar
    Helder_Rebelo
    13 years ago

    We are using SLES 11 with multipathd to do VMWARE SAN transport, but netbackup 7.5.0.4 ignore the multipath devices for reading, and use the first device it found that contains the vmfs....

    Consequently we got lot's of trespassed LUN's with EMC CX/VNX, lot's of errors on Netapps :-(

     

    I believe if you do the same on the NBU appliance, the netbackup will not use the multipath dev's as well...

     

  • Helder_Rebelo's avatar
    Helder_Rebelo
    Level 0
    13 years ago

    We are using SLES 11 with multipathd to do VMWARE SAN transport, but netbackup 7.5.0.4 ignore the multipath devices for reading, and use the first device it found that contains the vmfs....

    Consequently we got lot's of trespassed LUN's with EMC CX/VNX, lot's of errors on Netapps :-(

     

    I believe if you do the same on the NBU appliance, the netbackup will not use the multipath dev's as well...