Thanks for the help so far.   Several people responded saying that I must first insure drivers exist at Windows OS level for the library and for the drives.  

 

After working on this I realized that the 2 LTO3 drives I was seeing were because it did find drivers for those so it was seeing the 1 LTO3 in one partition (which only has that 1 drive) and the other LTO3 from the second partition (which also has my 10 LTO5 drives which were not being seen presumably because it didn’t have drivers for those).   I got the driver for the Quantum i6000 from Quantum tech support and was advised the drivers for the tape drives had to be obtained from HP.   The drivers for the tape drives were downloaded and the OS now sees the 10 LTO5s as well as the 2 LTO3s under Tape Drives   (In fact during this process I saw the Windows Device Manager had the 10 LTO5s as Other Devices so it may have been seeing them all along and I hadn’t noticed them being in the wrong section.)   For good measure I also updated the driver on the LTO3s.

 

Despite that when I go into Devices under NetBackup it shows me only the tape library (as TLD 0 like all the other media servers) for this Windows media server and the 2 LTO3 drives.   When I select any of the LTO5 drives it does not show this Windows Media Server in the list for that drive (but does show all my other media servers).  

 

After some online reading I tried running “scan.exe –all” but it didn’t output any useful information.

 

Also since I had earlier enabled Persistent Binding in Qlogic SANSurfer I disabled it and rebooted thinking perhaps it had persistently bound “nothing”.   That didn’t help.

 

Any ideas on how to get NBU to see the LTO5s for this Windows media server given that the OS now sees them?

 

 

Netbackup 7.1 

Windows 2008 R2

Qlogic QLE2460 HBAs

Quantum i6000 Tape Library with (HP) Ultrium5 and Ultrium 3 drives.

 

I’m a UNIX admin so don’t really know my way around windows well.   The HBAs show up in Windows but no drives beneath them.   The HBAs show up in Qlogic’s SANSurfer and I see “type” as “disk” for the library and it doesn’t seem to have a place to change “type”.   In SANSurfer I do see LUNs for each of the tape drives.    After doing some research I used SANSurfer to turn on persistent binding and rebooted but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

 

When I go into NBU console and try to create storage units it shows me the TLD0 but has it in red so presumably there is a problem.  If I try to go ahead and configure it it says:

“The device is not supported by the volumes wizard at this time”.

 

Are library is partitioned so that all but 1 of the drives is one partition and that 1 drive (an Ultrium 3) is in the other partition.   In the Windows devices I see the Ultrium 3 as a tape drive and the NBU storage units show that as well.   The windows devices do not show the drives from the other partitions.

 

I do have the SSO and Tape Drives options licensed on the server.   All the appropriate NBU services seem to be running.

 

If I try to setup storage unit in the NBU GUI for disk storage (for our attached dedupe appliances it shows this media server but when I tell it to use the tape it doesn’t show it.

 

Any ideas?

 

  

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