NB & Backup Over SAN

[Ahmad_Abdelhady]

Hi All,

I Have HyperV Sever installed on windows 2008 core and i need to backup all the VM's on this server over SAN ,And also if i can backup the VM's to tape direct.So can you please share with me the required agents and the best solution to do.

Thanks & Regards

Ahmad

[Deepak_G]

If you are using NBU Version 6.X then you can go for Vmware centralized backup framework.

You need to create a staging server and create storage tanks on them (allocate disk space from SAN). Using VMmount option mount the snap of the VM into the storage tank. Then the relocation happens from the storage tanks to the tape / VTL .

Check these technotes

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH51377

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH54963

In NBU 7.0 and higher  supports directly backing up a ESX server using the Vstorage API, which eliminates the need for the VCB server.

Technote for the same

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH127830

[Ahmad_Abdelhady]

I will use version 7.1 ,

Thanks for your response but i need to backup HyperV Sever installed on windows 2008 CORE.

[Omar_Villa]

I think you need read http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH127073

Regards

[Ahmad_Abdelhady]

I have already checked this doc before, And what i really need to know ,the windows 2008 core is only supported by NB client,So if i installed the NB client on the HyperV server (2008 core) and i need to backup over SAN and backup to tape library direct,

So i must install SAN client on the HyperV server to backup over SAN and can i backup to tape direct with SAN client.

Or this solution is not recommended and there is something i missing.

Regards,

Ahmad

[Yasuhisa_Ishika · Accepted solution]

SAN client can not write to tape directly, so you have to configure FT media server on RHEL, SUSE, or SPARC Solaris server with supported HBAs. Backup data will be transferd from Hyper-V host to FT media server, then FT media server direct data to tape storage.

[Ahmad_Abdelhady]

What about SAN storage?? ,, I will need to make the same ???