ISCSI will be supported in 7.5 for MSDP however there will be specific performance requirements. Not all sure on all but I know 10gb, for instance, will be required.
Yes and no. The key with vsphere 5 is that they are introducing vms hardware level 8. This new hardware will have new features (like vmx 7 introduced change block tracking over hardware version 4). 7.1.0.3 will work but won't support vmx 8 capabiliti...
I believe this has to do with the fact that netbackup has the ability to "view" into the vms as they are being backed up to see individual files and identify if they have changed since the last backup (which is one of the reasons you need to set up t...