HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide (5697-0204, January 2010)

storage provider on the backup client server where the application, the writer, exists. Exposing the
servers to the SAN CLI virtual disk makes the servers ready to service the VSS command that the
backup software initiates.
The following images show a configuration example of Veritas NetBackup software that uses VSS
snapshots. The configuration consists of two servers:
• One server runs the application and has an adequate backup client installed.
• The second server runs the backup software and acts also as the media server.
Figure 30 shows a configured MS-Windows-NT backup policy for three drives (x, y, w) on a computer
named SRV-00-016. The backup is written to a storage unit labeled srv-00-015-disk.
Figure 30 Veritas NetBackup software using VSS snapshots
.
Figure 31 shows that the srv-00-015-disk storage unit is actually a disk drive that is connected to
server srv-00-015, which acts as the media server.
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