Hello Rongsheng
Hopefully the following pointers will assist:
Q1: The Shared Storage option is based on the number of tape drives you wish
to share in your Netbackup environment
Q2: Each NetBackup Media Server will require a Media License / SSO License.
You may also know this as a SAN MEDIA Server, which is what I refer to them
as. They are licensed to communicate with the Master Server, and also the
SSO License allows them to share the Tape Drive or Drives.
Q3: Well, what I have done is connected the drives and robot to the Fabric.
I run Win2k3, and essentially what Windows does is detects a Medium Changer
and the relevant Tape drives that are present on the fabric. Doing this also
allows you to run the Device Configuration Wizard quite easily in windows.
Of course you can do this task manually by adding a robot and tape drives.
Q4: I do not know much about the EMM, but essentially, the Master needs to
be connected to the SAN, and I would say very likely in your case.
Of course my answers could be wrong :-) but this is my understanding and how
my setup works.
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Rongsheng Fang [mailto:unixlifebox at gmail.com]
Sent: 20 February 2007 14:51
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Questions about NetBackup Shared Storage Option (SSO)
Hi,
Currently we are running NB 5.0 and doing LAN-based backups. We have one
tape library (StorageTek L180) that is directly connected to the master
server. We'll be upgrading our backup infrastructure to Netbackup 6.0
and move from LAN-based backup to SAN-based backup using NetBackup's SSO
option.
Even though I did do my homework and read through "Shared Storage Option
(SSO) Topics" of "Veritas NetBackup 6.0 Media Manager SA's Guide" page
by page, I still have a few questions:
1) How does Veritas license SSO? Is it based on tape drives?
2) Does each master/media server that will be sharing the tape drives
need an individual SSO license, or only one single SSO license is needed
and can be installed on all the servers?
3) We'll be connecting the tape library (StorageTek L180) to the SAN
switch during the upgrade. Do we just connect the robot to the FC
switch, or we need to connect the robot and all of the tape drives that
are in it to the FC switch?
4) We'll be running EMM on the master servers which will act as the host
allocating and deallocating tap drives. In this case, do the master
servers need to be connected to the SAN?
Thanks,
Rongsheng
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