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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Notes and prerequisites
  4. Support for LVM thin pool based volumes
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Support for LVM thin pool based volumes

NetBackup support the indexing of files on XFS formatted volumes and partitions for VMware Replication Director and Integrated Snapshot Manager for VMware.

Support added for LVM2 Thin Pool Volumes for VMware.

Note:

Ensure to provide -V option while creating LVM thin volumes when you create thin-pool based volumes. If user fails, then the Index From Snapshot (IFS) job fails unexpectedly. For more details, refer the lvcreate manual page for creating LVM thin volumes.

Note:

Windows backup host is not supported for the indexing of files on LVM2 thin volumes for VMware policy and VMware Replication Director and Integrated Snapshot Manager for VMware.

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