03-13-2015 04:20 PM
I am in a stage of designing a solution for customer who is already having NB5230 appliance and Netbackup master server windows 2012 R2.
custemer wants to backup vmware clients as below.
snapshot will be taken at client side and copied to MEDIASERVER or any other server.and then release client resources.
netbackup will backup snapshot from offhost server and source client will be released.
Is there any hardware based snapshot server available?
kinldy help.
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03-14-2015 03:16 AM
This sound like a normal VMware Vsphere backup soloution to me using SAN transfer
Will there be databases involved in the setup ?
The links below provide good background infromation about VMware backups.
Nuts and bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Transport methods and TCP ports
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/nuts-and-bolts-netbackup-vmware-transport-methods-and-tcp-ports
VMware Transport Modes: Best practices and troubleshooting
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH183072
03-14-2015 03:16 AM
This sound like a normal VMware Vsphere backup soloution to me using SAN transfer
Will there be databases involved in the setup ?
The links below provide good background infromation about VMware backups.
Nuts and bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Transport methods and TCP ports
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/nuts-and-bolts-netbackup-vmware-transport-methods-and-tcp-ports
VMware Transport Modes: Best practices and troubleshooting
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH183072
03-14-2015 08:46 AM
03-14-2015 09:11 AM
thanks nicolai and marianne,
i have gone through the nbu vmware guides and familiar with procedure. but i was checking if any other options availble which can give better performance.
is there any other good way of offloading VSS snapshot of physical manchines and backing up.
03-14-2015 10:09 AM
03-14-2015 11:08 AM
Snapshot for physical host is notorious difficult and expensive to operate
Unless you run a very important bushiness application where $$$ is no problem I recommend you don't go down that road.
But it free to take a look at the snapshot compatibility matrix :D
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126901
Windows VSS framework help you a lot, but again if you have something else that plain file system backup its going to be difficult and expensive. Nothing you will deploy large scale.
03-31-2015 01:00 PM
Just like Marianne had explained, it doesnt get any better at least for now than the process she had already enumerated. I am currently leveraging same backup procedure in my company for over 5,000 VMs. Incase some of the VMs are hosting applications such as SQL, Exchange & share point, backup of these app can also be done right the with snapshot. Please see netbackup for VMware admin guide http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC6461&profileURL=https%3A%2F%2Fsyma...
depending on your intended netbackup version. You can also protect these application by means of installing netbackup agent and apply respective netbackup options ( but need a license).
As for snapping physical servers..please do not even thread that path. Best bet for you is to install agents and backup the data as a file level backup ..etc. Hope this help? Thanks.