What is a SAN media server and a client

[Monu_Puri]

What is a SAN media server and a client

as per the SSO guide

"SANmedia servers are NetBackup media servers that back up their own data.SAN

media servers cannot back up the data that resides on other clients."

I found some references where this statement was contradictory so can some please put some light on it.

Do we have some tech note which tells what is Netbackup SAN environment

[Kiran_Bandi · Accepted solution]

The statement you quoted from SSO guide explains about SAN media server perfectly.

SAN media servers will have secondary storage devices connected and can write just their own data. 

A Sanclient is a NBU client which have FibreTransport service active on it. In case of SAN clients, backup data will be sent to storage devices through a NBU media server over SAN using Fibre Transport method. Backup traffic occurs over SAN and administrative traffic occurs over LAN. SAN clients uses fewer resources compared to SAN media servers.