Need advice/ more information on San transport, protecting san storage

[itsup-ast1]

In my lab i have a working netbackup for vm's on esx using the plugin and transfer methode san.

In a presentation i've found this slide.

Is there any detailed information available on those points?
As i'm want to be sure for 200% i can't mess with my san storage in production...
 

[itsup-ast1]

What i did so far:

diskpart

automount disable

san policy offineall

with this setup: i can backup using san when disk is in offline mode,

but i can only restore in nbd mode.

summary: the disk should never be online?

[RiaanBadenhorst · Accepted solution]

You can online the disk if you want to restore to them. The API and interaction between NBU and VDAP should take care not to blow away your disk.

VMware recommendations

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1035096

[itsup-ast1]

Just found this: 

http://rickardnobel.se/vmfs-exposed-to-windows-san-policy/

Snip:

After the empty 50 GB LUN is initialized we can see that the 400 GB VMFS volume (unknown to Windows) is online, i.e. in read/write mode, but there is no drive letter attached to the disk and as Windows noticed that it already contains a valid partition table it will not try to re-initialize it.

This means that as long as nothing more is done manually by the administrator the VMFS volume will not be damaged by being mounted by a Windows 2008 R2 Standard server either.