Hi,
We are currently setting up a Scale-out file system with Windows 2016 Nano. I was wondering if there are any information about if/when Netbackup will support such operating systems with backup clients.
Anyone?
Windows 16 support is targeted for NetBackup 8 release.
No idea when this version will be released as it is still undergoing Beta testing.
Best to get hold of Product Management via your local Veritas office.
My (limited) understanding is that Windows 2016 "nano" is a headless instance, and so does not have a console of any sort. So, if Veritas do add support for NetBackup Client inside the "nano" O/S instance, then it will have to be installed via PoSh scripts.
The other half of this question is, will NetBackup for Hyper-V support VM style backups of this "nano" O/S instance type via Hyper-V 2016 hosts?
I suppose Windows Server 2016 is supported by NBU 8.0,
This is from draft version of NBU 8.0 Release notes
NetBackup 8.0 support additions
The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 8.0:
■ VMware Backup Server vSphere 6.0 and its updates – VDDK 6.0.2
■ Client – Windows Server 2016 (Client, File Systems)
■ Bare Metal Restore (BMR) support for client and boot server on SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1
■ Enterprise Vault 12
■ Hyper- V for Windows Server 2016
...and I seem to remember reading somewhere that even MS own backup product SCDPM does not and will not support SCDPM backups of Windows Server 2016 nano.
I'll see if I can find the link.
This says (only once) that SCDPM does not backup Nano VMs:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/dpm/get-started/what-can-dpm-back-up-
...and curiously this doc:
title: What's supported and what isn't for DPM?
...doesn't even mention Nano.
But I did find several forum posts of others complaining about the lack of SCDPM backup support for Nano VMs.
