I'm looking for some clarification on doing off-host backups for VMware using Netbackup 7.5. I have read the 7.5 VMware Admin guide.I currently have a Linux Master/Media/client as my only system. The guide says two things about the backup host:
1. It needs to be Windows with a Netbackup client 7.5 installed.
2. It needs to be able to connect to the VM Host(s) and the SAN as well as the master/media server. I can get it to connect to the VM Hosts just fine but the SAN is a Dell Equi-Logic which is serving up block iSCSC to the VM Hosts formatted as vmfs. If I add the backup host to the access group of the datastore, is that enough access?
Is that correct or am I missing something?
Also, it looks like I may need to upgrade to 7.6 to get the Windows 2012/8 clients. Would Version 7.6 make this any easier?
Thanks!