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Brits's avatar
Brits
Level 6
10 years ago

San based data store backup from netbackup

Hi team, I read somewhere , In order to take San based data store backup we need to present those datastore luns to media server . We only need to present the luns to media server or some other step ...
  • sdo's avatar
    10 years ago

    Is your VMware access host / media server Windows based?

    If so, you may want to execute the commands below on the Windows based media server BEFORE presenting LUNs - otherwise when Windows detects new LUNs it will automatically access the partition tables and read from the LUNs (in an attempt to auto-mount them).  Windows shouldn't be able to mount the volumes, because the volumes will be structured as VMFS volumes - but IMO, I'd rather not let Windows Volume Manager behave in that way.  So, you could use this on the Windows media server:

    diskpart

    diskpart> automount disable

    diskpart> exit

    These commands won't interfere with SAN based VADP backups/restores.