I have to admit, I have great personal reservations towards virtualising backup servers. There’s a simple, fundamental reason for this: the backup server should have as few dependencies as possible in an environment. Therefore to me it seems completely counter-intuitive to make the backup server dependent on an entire virtualisation layer existing before it can be used.<\/p>\n
For this reason I also have some niggling concerns with running a backup server as a blade server.<\/p>\n
Personally, at this point in time, I would never willingly advocate deploying a NetWorker server as a virtual machine (except in a lab situation) \u2013 even when running in director mode.<\/p>\n
Let me qualify: I consider ‘director’ mode to be where the NetWorker server acts almost like a dedicated storage node \u2013 it only backs up its own index\/bootstrap information; with all other backups in the datazone being sent to storage nodes. Hence, as much as possible, all it is doing is ‘directing’ the backups.<\/p>\n
But I’m keen to understand your thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n
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