Hello everyone, I am told that for the VMWare restore hosts (AKA backup/recovery hosts in VMWARE/Netbackup literature) we need one for each server OS that needs backup but more importantly restoring. So if we have a mix of Linux and Windows servers in our estate that needs backup/restore, we would need a Linux restore host and a Windows restore host. If this is indeed the case, obviously that makes the whole thing quite impractical: Ideally what I would like to have is just a single flavour of Media server, e.g. a RHEL 6.x media server, which will also be my VMWARE backup/restore/recovery host (using preferably SAN transport) and with that I would be able to backup and restore:
- RHEL 5.x VM's
- RHEL 6.x VM's
- Windows 2008R2 VM's
- Windows 2012 VM's.
In fact, if this is indeed the case, how close does the match of OS version need to be between the VMWARE backup/restore host and the VM to backup/restore? Does it mean that I need a RHEL5, AND a RHEL6, AND a W2008R2, AND a 2012 backup/restore host in my case? The backup/restore hosts will need NBU clients installed and I would have to use a media server which would have to be on a separate system, which is something I would like to avoid. As mentioned above, I would like to be able to have a combined Backup Host & Media Server for all flavours I would like to restore/backup.
I hope this makes sense.
Your help is appreciated! Thank you.