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NetBackup™ SAN Client and Fibre Transport Guide

Planning your SAN Client deployment

Table: SAN Client deployment overview provides an overview of planning your deployment of SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

Table: SAN Client deployment overview

Step

Deployment task

Section

Step 1

Read about best practices and operational notes

See SAN Client operational notes.

Step 2

Determine the storage destination

See About SAN Client storage destinations.

Step 3

Determine the hosts to use

See How to choose SAN Client and Fibre Transport hosts.

Step 4

Prepare the SAN

See Preparing the SAN.

Step 5

License SAN Client

See About the SAN Client license key.

Step 6

Read about NetBackup agents

See About NetBackup SAN Client support for agents.

Step 7

Read about SAN Client and Hyper-V

See About NetBackup SAN Client support for Windows Hyper-V Server.

Step 8

Configure SAN Client and Fibre Transport

See Configuring SAN Client and Fibre Transport.

Step 9

Convert a SAN media server to a SAN Client

See Converting a SAN media server to a SAN client.

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