Netbackup and 3PAR
Hi all I have a Netbackup 7.7.1 server backing up VMs from 3PAR LUNs and EVA LUNs. The VM backup job was running smoothley. Suddenly the job started to fail for all VMs on the 3PAR. (EVA is fine)....
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They are no known issues with 3PAR.
Can you try disabling Accelerator and see if the backup works?
Also you should look at upgrade to at least 7.7.3.
They are 3rd party tools you can use for testing read performance on a LUN:
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=20
If you are using multiple paths, then disable it and try each path until you find a problem path. Work with 3PAR to identify the issue with the SAN configuration.
A simple to use but with good and clever options for disk file system IO speed profiling is:
