Windows 2008 and VMFS Netbackup 7
Hi Guys,
Quick question. I have added a new media server and am looking to use it as my VMware backup host. It is a windows 2008 server running netbackup 7.0.
When i present the VMFS LUNs to the OS they are showing as Offline healthy Primary partitions in disk managment. On my 2003 backup host they show as healthy unknown partitions.
does anyone know if this is just a change in the way disk manager see's the VMFS luns?
screen shot attached.
thanks in advance!
From the FAQ:
The GPT disk partition format is well defined and fully self-identifying. Data critical to platform operation is located in partitions and not in unpartitioned or "hidden" sectors. GPT disks use primary and backup partition tables for redundancy and CRC32 fields for improved partition data structure integrity. The GPT partition format uses version number and size fields for future expansion.
Each GPT partition has a unique identification GUID and a partition content type, so no coordination is necessary to prevent partition identifier collision. Each GPT partition has a 36-character Unicode name, which means that any software can present a human-readable name for the partition without any additional understanding of the partition.
The whole article can be read from : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx