Jonathan,

I hate to contradict you, however the most current support documentation
shows that the SUN StoreEdge Filers are not supported for SSO via direct
attached drives. 

The Sun StorEdge NAS Systems are only supported via Remote NDMP, 3-way
NDMP and in the case of the 4.20M0 OS direct attached NDMP backups.
Nowhere does it list SSO. I have double checked this with the Symantec
testing team as well as with Product Management.

Symantec is constantly working with Vendors to get products certified,
as they are certified the compatibility list is updated. The
compatibility lists are your best source of information, as these are
constantly updated. 

The 4.20 version of Sun StorEdge OS currently does not support SSO on
Direct attracted drives. If you were provided with information from
Symantec that it is supported in this way, please contact me off list
with the case number you opened to obtain this information. 

Thank You 
Mike Heck 
Customer Focus Team 
Symantec


Original message thread:

I've got confirmation from both SUN and Symantec that The Sun StorEdge
5320 running 4.20 M0 will allow SSO both via Remote NDMP (thru the Media
Server) and Direct Attached.  I'm still a bit sceptical, because it
hasn't worked yet, but I've got a fair amount of confidence that when
Sun & Symantec say something works, it will.  I'll have it up and
running next week and I'll confirm one way or another.

-Jonathan
 

-----Original Message-----
From: misha.pavlov at sgcib.com [mailto:misha.pavlov at sgcib.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:59 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and SSO in NetBackup 6.0 [NC]

Why not ? 
STK loves NT ... I'm sure it is a Dell box with Enginio controllers ...
If you want to use shared ( SSO ) drives - confirm with STK/SUN if the
NDMP version it runs supports SCSI Reserve/Release  and of course as was
mentioned yearlier today, NetBackup have to be version 6.


Regards.

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Ok... Just a point of clarification here...

I was under the assumption that if I had 4 fiber drives in library
shared with 2 media servers via SSO that I could also share one of those
drives with an NDMP NAS, namely a Sun StorEdge 5320.  Is this not the
case?

Just to clarify, when it comes NDMP backup time I want the Sun StorEdge
to allocate one of the SSO drives and write its data to it while sending
metadata to one of the media servers.  Is that not gonna happen?

-Jonathan



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mike
Heck
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:56 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and SSO in NetBackup 6.0

Rongsheng,

NDPM and SSO works very similar to normal SSO with NetBackup. 

What I would do is configure the Windows and UNIX hosts to share the
drives first, then configure access to the NDMP Host (Celerra NAS), then
finally modify the drives to include the NDMP path to the drives. 

You can then set up an NDMP storage Unit, and start backing up.

However I feel the need to advise you that not all versions of all
filers are compatible with SSO, this is mainly due the way reserve and
release are handled in some versions of some manufacturers Filer OS.
Please check the support.veritas.com web site, compatibility list for
NDMP to verify that your Filers OS is compatible.

Thank you,
Mike Heck