08-14-2014 12:51 PM
Hello. I have a problem I need resolved and hoping someone out there has a EMC VNX series SAN who has successfully figured this out.
We recently purchased a 40TB Netbackup 5230 solution and will be backing up our VMware clusters which their data is stored on the VNX SAN. This is fiber channel. I have the Netbackup appliance already zoned through our switch fabric and am successfully backing up one of our VMware ESXi 5.5 clusters.
I added the Netbackup appliance to the storage group of the VM cluster and all is well. My issue is that now I need to backup our other VM cluster which is a different storage group on the VNX. Any of you who know EMC/VNX know that a host can only be assigned to one storage group at a time. So my question is simply this. Given I have a EMC VNX 5300 (fiber channel) and a Netbackup 5230 how can I backup multiple storage groups at once?
Any help is greatly appreciated as I have hit a dead end with both vendors involved.
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08-14-2014 01:25 PM
This is off the top of my head, but have you considered manually registering the 5230 HBAs to the VNX so they are seen as individual hosts? I forget how to do that specifically, but I seem to recall having done similar things with ESX and VNX before.
You might also consider creating a storage group for the 5230 and put the DS LUNs into that. A LUN can exist in more than one Storage Group, you just can't have a host in more than one Storage Group.
08-14-2014 01:25 PM
This is off the top of my head, but have you considered manually registering the 5230 HBAs to the VNX so they are seen as individual hosts? I forget how to do that specifically, but I seem to recall having done similar things with ESX and VNX before.
You might also consider creating a storage group for the 5230 and put the DS LUNs into that. A LUN can exist in more than one Storage Group, you just can't have a host in more than one Storage Group.
08-15-2014 08:02 AM
Thanks. That is similar to what I was thinking as far as the storage group for the 5320. Also, good idea on the HBA's. I'll have to research the options there.