About provisioning the disk appliance storage
You or your storage administrator must install and configure the disk storage appliance or appliances in your environment. The appliances must be operational before you can use them for backups or duplication.
Specifically, do the following:
Install the appliances in your environment.
Install the vendor software packages on all NetBackup media servers that connect to the appliances.
Perform vendor-specific steps to configure the appliances. Use the vendor's processes and procedures to configure the appliance so that it works with your environment. To configure the storage, you may be required to do the following:
Assign the appliance a name. NetBackup uses the name to identify the appliance.
Divide the appliance into one or more logical units of space. NetBackup refers to these logical units as disk volumes. NetBackup aggregates the disk volumes into disk pools.
Configure the replication properties of the appliance volumes.
How many appliances you provision depends on your storage requirements. It also depends on whether or not you use optimized duplication or replication, as follows:
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Optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain |
You must provision at least two appliances:
See About OpenStorage optimized duplication within the same domain. |
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Auto Image Replication to a different NetBackup domain |
You must provision at least two appliances:
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Instructions for how to install and configure the appliance are beyond the scope of the NetBackup documentation. For instructions, refer to the vendor documentation.
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