Hi Ahmed, I'm not sure I understand exactly how you have the drives connected to the filer, but you might want to check that your drives and HBA are the same type. For example, If the drives and library are LVD/SE SCSI, make sure you're not plugging them into an HVD SCSI Host Bus Adapter, on the filer. And of course if the library is FCAL, your HBA must be FCAL.
-----Original Message----- From: Ahmed Fayek [mailto:ahmed_fayek@mentorg.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:32 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: NetApp NDMP Veritas NetBackup SunStoredge L1000
Hello all, i know it's a long email but i had to describe the system to give you a clear idea.
My system contains: *A robot library: Sun Storedge L1000, with 2 tape drives in it. *2 NDMP hosts to be connected physically to this library, they are NetApp filers , ONTAP 5.3.6R2 , *On the same LAN i got an Ultra10 solaris 7 machine on which installed Veritas NetBackup 3.4 data center with NDMP option installed, this will be my master/media server.
What i'm wondering about now is: 1.The filer connected to the library detects it as mc0 but does not detect the drives in the library. is there a reconfiguration reboot to do in netapp ? i did reboot it but no change.
2.On adding the robot to NetBackup configuration, it requires: device host = master/media server (NetBackup for NDMP server). volume database host = master/media server (NetBackup for NDMP server).
robot device = logic name of robot NDMP host name = ?? ex: toaster1
Here i need to specify an NDMP host name . So will i create a robot entry for each NDMP host? though they r both connected to same robot ??
3.On adding the drive, it depends also on the NDMP host name: ex: toaster1:nrst0a will the other drive be toaster1:nrst1a , or toaster2:nrst1a ???
4.Then on adding the storage unit: it also needs NDMP host name, will i add 2 storage units with the same configuration but differ in NDMP hostname only ??
I know it's a complex configuration, i'm planning for it from about 6 weeks ago and still doing search on it
Have you got any idea about such configuration? Is it ok to connect both netapp filers to same library?
Best Regards , -- Ahmed.
You probably don't have your extrenal SCSI cables on the library hooked up correctly.
It sounds as if the SCSI cable going from the robotics terminates.
It should be more like this:
Filer1-->Robotics-->Tape Drive1-->Terminate Filer2-->Tape Drive2-->Terminate
As far as referenceing these, you would have:
Filer1--> mc0 & nrst0a filer1:mc0 / filer1:nrst0a
Filer2--> nrst0a filer2:nrst0a
As the each have one tape drive attached, they would both be nrst0a. Now, if you are connecting via FCAL, then the story changes....
--tmac
"Cormier, Darleen" wrote:
Hi Ahmed, I'm not sure I understand exactly how you have the drives connected to the filer, but you might want to check that your drives and HBA are the same type. For example, If the drives and library are LVD/SE SCSI, make sure you're not plugging them into an HVD SCSI Host Bus Adapter, on the filer. And of course if the library is FCAL, your HBA must be FCAL.
-----Original Message----- From: Ahmed Fayek [mailto:ahmed_fayek@mentorg.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:32 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: NetApp NDMP Veritas NetBackup SunStoredge L1000
Hello all, i know it's a long email but i had to describe the system to give you a clear idea.
My system contains: *A robot library: Sun Storedge L1000, with 2 tape drives in it. *2 NDMP hosts to be connected physically to this library, they are NetApp filers , ONTAP 5.3.6R2 , *On the same LAN i got an Ultra10 solaris 7 machine on which installed Veritas NetBackup 3.4 data center with NDMP option installed, this will be my master/media server.
What i'm wondering about now is: 1.The filer connected to the library detects it as mc0 but does not detect the drives in the library. is there a reconfiguration reboot to do in netapp ? i did reboot it but no change.
2.On adding the robot to NetBackup configuration, it requires: device host = master/media server (NetBackup for NDMP server). volume database host = master/media server (NetBackup for NDMP server).
robot device = logic name of robot NDMP host name = ?? ex: toaster1
Here i need to specify an NDMP host name . So will i create a robot entry for each NDMP host? though they r both connected to same robot ??
3.On adding the drive, it depends also on the NDMP host name: ex: toaster1:nrst0a will the other drive be toaster1:nrst1a , or toaster2:nrst1a ???
4.Then on adding the storage unit: it also needs NDMP host name, will i add 2 storage units with the same configuration but differ in NDMP hostname only ??
I know it's a complex configuration, i'm planning for it from about 6 weeks ago and still doing search on it
Have you got any idea about such configuration? Is it ok to connect both netapp filers to same library?
Best Regards ,
Ahmed.
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