thanks for the help. And Jack, thanks for the tidbit about not needing another
license. That was a nice surprise.
Bobby.
From: "Jack Forester, Jr." <jack.l.forester at lmco.com>
Date: 2006/10/02 Mon AM 10:21:16 EDT
To: Bobby Williams <bobbyrjw at bellsouth.net>
CC: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clustered Master servers
Bobby,
I'm running clustered master servers just as you describe, and according
to our Symantec rep, you do not need SSO licenses for your clustered
master servers. However, if those same drives are shared with other
media servers, then the answer becomes "yes, you do need SSO licenses".
Clustered NBU is not supported in an active/active config, so the drives
are used on only one of the nodes in the cluster at any one time, so the
drives really aren't being "shared" between the cluster nodes. This
also means that you do not need separate NBU licenses for each node,
since the license "floats" to whichever node has the nbu_server service
group.
I just confirmed this last week with our rep as we had someone here who
wanted to set up a high availability media server.
The Veritas Cluster Server (Storage Foundation HA) agents you need for
NetBackup are included with NetBackup. Look at the HA Guide for
details. The files are in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cluster
Bobby Williams wrote:
>Masters are Solaris 9, NB5.1MP4
>
>If master servers are clustered with Veritas cluster, how does NetBackup deal
>with shared tape drives that both masters connect to?
>
>Do we have to get SSO licenses so they can share the drives?
>
>Is there a cluster aware add on that I will have to get?
>
>Please don't give your opinion, I am seeking info from folks that are using
>clustered Sun masters. (not meaning to be rude, but to many erroneous opions
>can be harmful.)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bobby
>
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