This may be documented somewhere so let me apologize if it is, I may not have entered the right magical phrase into the google machine to get the right results.
My environment is made up of 3 Netbackup servers (7.5.0.6); 1 Linux master/media server, 1 Windows media server and 1 Linux media server. The only host with SAN access to the vm datastore is the Windows media server and is specified in the master server properties --> VMWare Access Host section. On the policy for the vm backups I have selected to use SAN and to use this windows media server but with all of these properties set it will still try to use the other 2 media servers if this one is busy. The resulting error when attempts are made from the wrong media server is status 59. Is there a way to keep this from happening?
I did find this note in the Symantec Netbackup for VMWare Administrators Guide - Page 52 but wasn't sure if it was my problem.
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Note:
The storage unit that is specified in the policy must be unique to
your Windows media servers. If the storage unit is also available on a UNIX
media server, the snapshot cannot succeed.
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We are using SLPs that point to a single storage pool.
Thanks in advance.