I see that Thierry already answered this, but I just want to second to
reinforce what Thierry said. 

In our case, one of our DSN groups are our Exchange cluster.  WE have a
4 active, 2 passive cluster, and Networker works wonderfully in backing
up 3.5 - 4.0 TB nightly - in about 5 to 6 hours.   All over fiber in a
cluster environment.  

The "windows" backups run under one set of names (the physical name),
and then the Exchange IS stores run under another set of names, and can
be on any 4 of the 6 physical machines.   

If we couldn't run this over fiber, it would probably take more than our
backup window to run these backups. 

Good luck. 

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Chester Martin
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:12 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backup Over Fiber????

I'm running 7.4.4.  For the sake of example let's say ServerA and
ServerB in a windows cluster.  The virtual name of the cluster is going
to be Server.  

 

The data I'm backing up will be at least a terabyte so I'm going to go
the storage node or dedicated storage node route.  I also want to create
drives dedicated to this cluster.  Both of these servers will be fiber
connected so they can see my EDL.  

 

I understand the difference between a storage node and a dedicated
storage node, and I know that I can't setup a drive dedicated to the
cluster using the virtual name of the cluster (Crap!!).   I can setup a
client for each node and backup the cluster drives through the active
client (yuck!).

 

My question is this, if I setup a client with the name of the cluster
(Server) and NOT give it a dedicated drive will my backups still run
over fiber?

 


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