11-30-2010 04:10 AM
Hi,
Just looking for views on how people are backing up Xen environments with NBU.
We have a SLES 11 pilot environment with 2 virtual machines also running SLES 11. The virtual machines use passthrough disks. Currently we back them up as LAN clients but I was wondering if anyone had found a better way.
Is there any support for XEN in NBU? Anything roadmapped?
Thanks for your feedback. Regards,
11-30-2010 05:32 AM
First place to check is the OS support matrices - landing page to check is the NBU product:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landing&key=15143
SLES 11 is supported
Virtualization support
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH127089
snippet from above doc
Support for Citrix XenServer
NetBackup supports backup and recovery of virtual machines in a Citrix XenServer
virtualized environment, by means of a Snapshot Client off-host backup method.
For a description of this backup approach, see the following document:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122191
11-30-2010 06:07 AM
Thanks for the info. This is for Citrix XenServer though. We´re using the Xen version that comes with SLES 11 which I believe is a much lower version (3.3) apart from also being the open source version.
Additionally our VMs are running SLES 11 as well and not Windows and most of this documentation is focused on Windows VMs.
I was wondering if anyone had a similar env and what they were doing.
Thansk again for you help.