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  2. NetBackup™ Replication Director Solutions Guide
  3. Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
  4. Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
  5. Software required to use NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director
NetBackup™ Replication Director Solutions Guide

Software required to use NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director

The following NetApp software is required to use Replication Director.

Table: NetApp software required for Replication Director

Configuration

Applies to OnCommand Unified Manager?

Primary cluster storage system

Secondary cluster storage systems

NetApp cluster storage systems

Must be added to the OnCommand Unified Manager.

No

Yes

Yes

CIFS

Applies to Windows only; NAS only.

No

Yes

Yes

NFS

Applies to UNIX only; NAS only.

No

Yes

Yes

NDMP

Make sure that the NDMP service is enabled on any Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) that you want to back up.

You can verify that the NDMP service is enabled with the following NetApp command:

vserver services ndmp show

Make sure that the node-scoped NDMP is disabled.

You can verify that node-scoped NDMP is disabled with the following NetApp command:

system services ndmp node-scope-mode status

No

Enable

Enable

Settings for all storage systems

See the NetApp documentation for information about configuring the settings on all storage systems.

No

Yes

Yes

Settings for OnCommand Unified Manager

See the NetApp documentation for information about configuring the settings on the OnCommand Unified Manager.

Yes

No

No

See Using NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director.

See Configuration overview: NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP with Replication Director.

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