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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting VMs using hardware snapshots and replication
  4. Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Prerequisites for hardware snapshot and replication

Following are the prerequisites for hardware snapshot-based support explained in the table.

Table: Prerequisites for hardware snapshot support

Support parameter

Description

System

  • All supported NetBackup primary, media server platforms.

  • Backup host for VMware must be RHEL, SUSE or Windows.

  • Snapshot manager server supported to the operating system platform as follows:

    • Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 Server LTS

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2 and 7.x

Configuration

  • NetBackup version 10.1 primary, media server and backup host.

  • VMware backup host can be on any of the NetBackup appliance form factor:

    • NBA

    • Flex

    • NetBackup FlexScale (NBFS)

  • NetBackup Snapshot Manager version 10.1

Permission

  • On Windows backup host, the following NetBackup services must be started using similar domain user account.

    • NetBackup Client Service

    • NetBackup Legacy Network Service

  • The domain user must be part of local administrative group.

VMware NFS datastores

VMware NFS datastores mounted on the ESX host must be version NFS 4.1. or NFS 3.0.

VMware VCenter and ESX sever hosting virtual machine

Virtual machines must reside on the NFS datastores.

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