NetBackup Media Server on ESXi host

[DNT]

Hi there

I've been searching the internet without much luck. I've been wondering if anyone has ever installed NetBackup Media Server software on an ESXi host and whether it is supported. 

I want to play around with some things. Nothing serious.

Regards

[Marianne]

The question about Virtual NBU media server is asked quite often.
You can find the link to "Support for NetBackup in a Virtual Environment" over here:
NetBackup Master Compatibility List
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH59978

In short, VMware virtual media server is supported with disk storage only.
No tape.

[Genericus]

We use a VM windows media server in our test environment, and it works great !

Except we upgraded it to 8.1.2 to test the upgrade process and now it cannot connect to the master...

[DNT]

Hi Marianne

Thanks for the reply. I was asking more specifically about installing NBU on the ESXi OS (physical host), not on a virtual machine. I doubt it's possible since ESXi is a rather reduced functionality Linux flavour. 

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

You are correct. 

There is no backup software for the ESXi server. 
This is a VMware limitation as far as I know.