1) How does Veritas license SSO? Is it based on tape drives? You need to have a SSO license on each server that will be using the shared storage.
2) Does each master/media server that will be sharing the tape drives need an individual SSO license, or one single SSO license is needed and can be installed on all the servers? I think your question is "buy one license to put on all servers, or does each server need it's own individual license". I guess this really is a question for your sales rep. I *should* probably know this, but I have nothing to do with purchasing. I don't deal with the sales guys. You do how ever need a SSO license on all servers that will be sharing the device. It's been recommended to me that each server have the same SSO license key. You can buy one key for multiple servers. 3) We'll be connecting the 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? You need to connect the robot and the tape drives to the FC switch. If the drives weren't connected to the FC switch, how else would the servers write to the drives? 4) We'll be running EMM on the master servers which will act as the host allocating and deallocating tap drives. Do the master servers need to be connected to the SAN? No, it doesn't *need* to be. But, if you've got enough Fibre ports on your switch, an extra port on your master server, and no directly connected Tape Drive to the Master Server....I'd do it just for the Catalog Backups. One thing to remember, which ever server has the tape drive installed first over the Fibre San will have "control" of the tape jukebox. I'd also recommend setting up the SSO environment via command line. /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpautoconfig and /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig are your best friends. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman Information Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 968-1302 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:58 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup upgrade to 6.0 and Shared Storage Option 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 with the following changes: 1) two master servers running NB 6.0 on Sun Solaris 10/SPARC that are clustered using VCS 5.0 2) we'll be doing SAN-based backups using NB's SSO option. Even though I did 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 one single SSO license is needed and can be installed on all the servers? 3) We'll be connecting the 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. Do the master servers need to be connected to the SAN? TIA, and have a nice weekend! Rongsheng _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu <http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu>
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