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  2. NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide
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NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide

Configuring SAN clients in a cluster

The SAN Client FT service is not a cluster application. To protect the SAN clients that are in a cluster, you must configure all of the SAN clients in the cluster correctly.

See Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line.

Table: Process to configure a SAN client in a cluster

Step

Action

Description

Step 1

Install the NetBackup client software on each failover node

See the NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Windows:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

Step 2

Configure the SAN client on each failover node

Ensure that the FT service is active on all of the failover nodes.

See About configuring firewalls for SAN clients.

See SAN client driver requirements.

See Configuring the SAN client Fibre Transport service.

Step 3

Register the virtual node name with the EMM server

See Registering a SAN client cluster virtual name.

Step 4

Configure the NetBackup local cache

On each SAN Client in the cluster, set the NetBackup LOCAL_CACHE option to NO.

See About NetBackup SAN Client support for clustering.

See Setting NetBackup configuration options by using the command line.

Warning:

Do not change the LOCAL_CACHE value on the FT media servers or the primary server.

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