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Arsalan_2k's avatar
Arsalan_2k
Level 4
11 years ago

vCenter Virtual Appliance

I need some assistance.
We are thinking to upgrade our vCenter from a Windows machines, to the vCenter Virtual Appliance, which runs on Linux.
Do you think Netbackup will still work, if we decide to use the Linux based virtual appliance.
Any thoughts or views would be appreciated.

 

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  • CRZ's avatar
    CRZ
    11 years ago

    We produced TECH127089 - is that enough?  :)

    (I can't personally vouch for it, but all of the previous replies are from people I would trust.)

    DOCUMENTATION: Support for NetBackup 7.x in virtual environments (updated December 17, 2013).
     http://symantec.com/docs/TECH127089

    I encourage you to Subscribe to this CL to get emails when we update it in the future - with 7.6.0.2 coming soon, I'm certain a CL update will also come soon!

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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Seems to work - we used the Vcenter virtual appliance in a test lab and the Netbackup and Vcenter worked fine together. Let me check the support matrix - will be back.

    Update:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127089

    I believe the Vcenter Linux appliance is supported as long as it matches the tabel 10 page 14. It say "**All versions in the range are supported**" - " vCenter Server 4.0 to vCenter Server 5.1"

     

  • V4's avatar
    V4
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Backup host must be Windows in case of IVR, for rest linux based vcenter appliance should be fine if appliance allows NBU client to be installed in it.

    I believe NBU does support linux based backuphost hence there shouldn't be any problem at all

    Give it a try

  • Arsalan_2k's avatar
    Arsalan_2k
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    thanks for your replies. I wonder if Symantec can also comment on this. 

  • CRZ's avatar
    CRZ
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    We produced TECH127089 - is that enough?  :)

    (I can't personally vouch for it, but all of the previous replies are from people I would trust.)

    DOCUMENTATION: Support for NetBackup 7.x in virtual environments (updated December 17, 2013).
     http://symantec.com/docs/TECH127089

    I encourage you to Subscribe to this CL to get emails when we update it in the future - with 7.6.0.2 coming soon, I'm certain a CL update will also come soon!