Recently I have reviewed the newest version of Symantec NetBackup ™ Security and Encryption Guide and I realized that I have not met so often in my customer environment an important NetBackup security option: NBAC. Hmm, I can admit, I have seen twice this feature implemented... The NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is the role-based access control that… Read More »
Symantec NetBackup is an enterprise-level backup platform that protects your physical and virtualized servers. A feature NetBackup Accelerator has been introduced with NetBackup 7.5 for file backups and with version 7.6 for virtual machines running in VMware. What is this? NetBackup Accelerator uses the VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) functionality to identify blocks which have been… Read More »
This is not a seldom situation, when backups of VMs or physical servers are performed via dedicated network cards. But what if backups are done via VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP)? It depends on transport methods: LAN or SAN. In this post we discuss a scenario when we use LAN (Network Block Device… Read More »