Hi Chris,
Thanks for clarity but this does contradict Wolfsbanes experience and health check results (other thread). It also a serious limitation on the new NetBackup Appliance especially considering it is Suse Linux.
How are customers to get the best use out of 10Gb Ethernet ports if they cannot get connected to multiple VLANs? This just makes no sense. All customers of any reasonable size are going to have multiple vlans that require backup traffic to flow to and from.
How does Symantec suggest customers solve this problem without support for VLANs?
The only way I can see is to create a single backup VLAN and change ALL clients to have interfaces on that VLAN. This may not always be possible depending on clients OS and installed network cards. It can also pose security threats. It also means all clients must change compared to single device change of VLANs supported on appliance.
If a customer installed there own NetBackup Server (hardware and OS) they could configure VLANs. It is the sensible thing to do.
If we create VLANs will all other aspects of set-up be supported apart from any VLAN issues. To be frank VLANs tend to work and in general any issues are at the network stack.
Best Regards,
Kevin.
