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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Appendix A. NetBackup BMR related appendices
  4. BMR support for virtual environment
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

BMR support for virtual environment

Following table lists BMR Boot server and Client versions supported on virtualization technologies.

Hypervisor Type and Version

OS Version on Guest VM

ESX 4.1

Windows, RHEL-Linux, SuSE-Linux

ESX 5.0

Windows, RHEL-Linux, SuSE-Linux, Solaris x64

ESX 5.1

Windows, RHEL-Linux, SuSE-Linux, Solaris x64

IBM VIO AIX 7.1

AIX 6.1 and 7.1 versions

Hyper-V

Windows, RHEL-Linux, SuSE-Linux

Note:

Solaris Zones recovery is supported by protecting host operation system. Refer See Solaris zone recovery support.

For information: Following OS recoveries on their supported virtual platforms have not been officially tested or supported but some of the customers have tried them successfully.

  • AIX recovery on LPAR

  • HPUX recovery of vPar, nPar

  • Solaris recovery on LDOM instance

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