Thank you once again Jonathan. I am being told that 6.5.1 includes VMWare support for Master / Media, but I have not found any proof of this, so I may raise a call with Symantec to get full confirmation.
not sure I like the idea of a Master server being a VM box myself. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:37 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers The Netbackup 6 OS Compatibility Matrix lists VMWare explicitly and the only servers they support are NOM and VBR. They also list support for VMWare Guest Clients running the appropriate OS agent but no other servers are listed. I looked into this when we purchased VMWare and the only solution I could come up with for Vming your Master servers (and it would still be unsupported) was to use NAS Storage, iSCSI or VTLs that "look" like disk. VMWare confirmed no support for any tape devices or local SCSI devices except DISK. I did look a bit into RedHat support for a virtual master server configuration using their flavor of Xen and it looked plausible, but I never had the time to fully follow-up with an SE or read the whitepapers. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:43 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers > > Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a > > Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a > > tape library? > A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that > VMware does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has > no plans to do so. Some fiddling around managed to get a guest to see > such tape drives, but they did not work reliably at all. > Do you happen to have any Technotes about this? or any forum links ? Only what we were told by the HP and VMware support folks when we were trying to come up with a backup solution for a proposed virtual 1tb file server. We could not come up with any workable solution because of the lack of SAN-attached tape drive support and the inability of the VMware consolidated backup proxy to do multi-stream backups. Neither of these bits of information were easy to get out of them. - Bluejay Adametz "People generally react to any new situation in one of four ways: AhA!... Ho-hum... Oy Vey!... and Yum, Yum. These illustrate the four basic states of consciousness." - David Brin, in "Earth" _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu