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 also required?…...those luns should be in read only mode or read/write both?
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.
