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How to check if a VMware datastore is presented on SAN to a Windows NetBackup host

Article: 100039108
Last Published: 2017-05-19
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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection

Description

For VMware backups to use the SAN transport mode, the datastore LUNs must be accessible to the VM backup host.

Here is how to check if a datastore has been presented to a Windows VM backup host:
  1. Download, install and run Linux Reader: https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
  2. Click View -> View -> Expert.
  3. Expand or double-click the first column titled Disk in the table.
  4. Observe the list of presented Datastores with paths starting with /vmfs/volumes as per the screenshot below. This shows Datastore LVIDs (Logical Volume IDentifiers) as well as names.
  5. Confirm that the Datastore in question appears in the list.
Linux Reader screenshot


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