Shared Storage Option terms and concepts
Table: Shared Storage Option terms and concepts describes the terms and the concepts relevant to understanding the Shared Storage Option.
Table: Shared Storage Option terms and concepts
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Backup Exec Shared Storage Option
| The NetBackup Shared Storage Option is not the same as the Cohesity Backup Exec Shared Storage Option. The Backup Exec SSO does not include support for UNIX servers and uses a different method for drive arbitration.
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SAN media servers
| A NetBackup SAN media server backs up its own data to shared drives. It cannot back up data on other NetBackup hosts or clients. Cohesity licenses NetBackup SAN media servers.
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Shared drive
| When the Shared Storage Option is installed, a tape drive that is shared among hosts is termed a shared drive. For the drives that are attached to NDMP hosts, each NDMP attach host is considered an additional host.
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