No master server would be in the VCS I was talking about. Both nodes 
will be running the media servers, not one running master and the other 
running media. All the stuff can be placed on the shared drive.

I got your point about the Symantec support. That's exactly why I wanted 
to find out if that kind of setup is supported.

I am also not sure what would happen if one media server fails over to 
another one as far as all the daemons are concerned. Will both VIPs be 
sharing the same set up NetBackup daemons?

Rongsheng

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I think what they're saying is you can't use NetBackup the way you use
> something like Oracle RAC - where the DB is accessible from both nodes
> at the same time.   So I don't think THAT precludes what you suggest.
> 
> The question is, however, how would you separate your "media server"
> directory structure from your "master server" directory structure?
> Doing what you suggest sounds like a good way to maximize resources but
> a good way to get into a real mess in certain kind of failures and at
> least to give Symantec and easy out when you do have issues by saying
> "that's not a supported configuration".
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Rongsheng Fang
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:28 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.0 and cluster (Veritas Cluster Server)
> 
> Say we have a VCS 5.0 cluster with two nodes A and B. We want to install
> 
> NetBackup 6.0 on both nodes and have them configured with VCS. We'd like
> 
> to made node A media server mediaA (VIP) and node B mediaB (VIP) and 
> each is responsible for different sets of storage units and clients. Is 
> it possible to set the cluster up so that media server mediaB can 
> failover to node A where media server mediaB is running and wise versa? 
> Does NetBackup support this kind of setup?
> 
> Does this fall into the category mentinoed in NetBackup High 
> Availability System Administrator's Guide: "NetBackup is not supported 
> as an active/active application in a cluster"?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rongsheng
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