Netbackup 773 SAN mode compatibile with vsphere 6.5 with VMFS 5.0 Datastore

[Manumohan]

Hello Veritas,

Please help me to know whether Netbackup 773 is able to backup VMs living on VMFS datastore of vSphere.

vsphere is 6.5

VMFS is 5.0.

I checked Netbackup sort and it showing VMFS 6.0 is not supported with NBU SAN mode.

But do not know VMFS 5.0 is supported please help to guide with correct info.

[Marianne]

Herewith Veritas TN dated December 5, 2016:

Veritas NetBackup support for vSphere 6.5 
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000116592

For both NBU 7.7.3 and 8.0 you will see the following:

• VMs that reside on VMFS 6.0 cannot be backed up by using SAN transport mode. As a workaround, use NBD, NBDSSL, or HotAdd transport mode to backup such VMs. SAN transport mode support for VMs on VMFS 6.0 is planned for a future NetBackup release.

I cannot find any document with reference to VMFS 5.0

This forum post seems to indicate that SAN backup of VMFS 5.0 might be working: 
https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/NBU-7-6-for-VMware-and-transport-mode-SAN/td-p/741219

[sdo]

The only way to be sure is to read the VDDK release notes to see if support has been dropped for VMFS 5.0 from any given VDDK version, see here:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000010289

N.B:  Different versions of NetBackup (including different updates - and - including different EEBs) can introduce different embedded VDDK versions within NetBackup.  I mean, one cannot ever simply say NetBackup v7.X always supports VMFS vY.Z - because it always depends on whether you have upgraded NetBackup and/or installed certain EEBs which include VDDK updates.