VM Restore from netbackup

Symantec NetBackup 7.6 for VMware Administrator's Guide

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC6461

Chapter 10 & 11

Page 146 - Restore to orginal location

Page 150 - Restore to alternate location

I am wondering if you actually went through the sections of the manual that Nicolai referred you to?

If you did, you would've seen the following on p.148:

■ Remove network interfaces
Removes any network interfaces from the restored virtual machine.
Select this option if:
      ■ The network connections on the destination virtual machine have changed since the backup was                  made.
     ■ Or if the original virtual machine still exists and a duplicate may cause conflicts.

The one thing that may be an issue with SAN restore is with write permission on SAN disk.

See this post: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-7505-and-vmware-san-transport#comment-8895811 

There are also scenarios where LAN based restore is better than SAN - this is documented in the NBU for VMware Admin Guide.

Logs needed on backup host: tar
Media server: bptm and bpbrm

*** EDIT ***

Found this in NBU for VMware Guide:

For the SAN transport mode and a restore host on Windows 2008R2, the restore
fails if the datastore’s lun is offline. The detailed status log contains messages
similar to the following:
5/22/2013 4:10:12 AM - Info tar32(pid=5832) done. status: 24:
socket write failed
5/22/2013 4:10:12 AM - Error bpbrm(pid=5792) client restore EXIT STATUS 24:
socket write failed
Make sure the status of the SAN disk on the restore host is online (not offline).
Disk status can be checked or changed using the Windows diskpart.exe utility
or the Disk Management utility (diskmgmt.msc). When the disk status reads
online, retry the restore.
■ A restore by means of the SAN transport mode may be slow in other
circumstances. The following VMware article provides details:
Best practices when using SAN transport for backup and restore