Hi there
I've been reading up a bit about Netbackup and VMware backup and restore options and architectures, trying to find out how I could make what I've been handed run more efficiently.
The current setup consists of a Solaris 10 Master/Media server (Site 1) and a Solaris 10 Media server (Site 2). The two physical servers are on seperate sites (Site 1 and Site 2).
The VMware environment consists of 1 VCS and 4 ESXi hosts. Two ESXi hosts reside at each site (Site 1 and Site 2), and are also logically seperate with VMware datacenters. The backup host resides at the same site as as the VCS (Site 1) and both are virtual machines.
Datastores and Netbackup servers are using SAN attached FC storage.
Due to hardware and infrastructure constraints, I have to go with the hotadd backup host option. My concern is that the backup host is not in the same datacenter as the all of the VM's that need to be backed up. Currently it seems all backup traffic goes via the LAN (not a dedicated backup LAN), which is not ideal.
Can I have two hotadd backup hosts, one at each site? Would it be of any benefit?
Other suggestions to improve the efficiency will be appreciated.
Dean