Quick question, why do you prefix some of your e-mails with [NC] -- is 
that from a web/news posting, or?

On Wed, 2 May 2007, POUSSARD, Gilles (INFOTEL) wrote:

>
>       Hello,
>
>
>
>       I use direct attached tape drives ( through a SAN ) to backup my filers 
> . I don't use remote NDMP nor 3-way NDMP becaus I don't want to use the 
> network for backup or restore traffics.
>
>       I have 2 questions:
>
>       1) It seems that for NetApp filers we have the possibility to share 
> "filers direct attached tape drives" with media servers , but the DataOntap 
> version needs to be at least at 7.1.1 version. Because, my filers are only at 
> 7.04P10 version until now, I can't share those direct attached tape drives. 
> Is it exact ??
>
>       2) If I am in 7.1.1 DataOntap version, will I be able to share tape 
> drives between 2 filers ??
>
>
>       Thanks .
>
>       Gilles.
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu]De la part de Mike
> Heck
> Envoy? : mardi 1 mai 2007 17:15
> ? : veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Objet : Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and SSO in NetBackup 6.0 [NC]
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Misha Pavlov
> Soci?t? G?n?rale
> desk: (212) 278-6096
> cell: (646) 346-9341
>
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>
>
> "Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)" <JMARTI05 at intersil.com> Sent by:
> veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> 04/26/2007 03:07 PM
>
>
> To
> "Mike Heck" <mike_heck at symantec.com>,
> <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> cc
>
> Subject
> Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP and SSO in NetBackup 6.0
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [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
>
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