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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:59 PM To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Cc: veritas-bu@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 This message uses only 100% recycled electrons. "Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/26/2007 03:07 PM To "Mike Heck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <veritas-bu@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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Heck Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:56 PM To: veritas-bu@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 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu