MSDP 250TB
Hi
I have some questions about MSDP 250TB
can I have 32TB Disk and expand it later to 64TB then 96TB and so on in Windows and use crcontrol command to add it? I mean I use MSDP in my backup plan and then expand it. in dedupe guide says:
Before you can use the Media Server Deduplication Pool,you must add the other two volumes to the disk pool.
another question is this phrase: 8 mount points, each mount point must have a separate RAID group, a RAID 6 is recommended.
in windows in a single drive how could I use 8 mount point with separate RAID group?
and it's interesting doc says: Recommended operating systems: ■ Red Hat Linux 7.5 ■ Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Thanks in advance
1) present 32TB LUN to media server
2) apply a partition table (usually *not* MBR these days) to the LUN
3) create a partition to occupy the full LUN space
4) apply a file system to the partition - in your case NTFS
5) mount that new 32TB file-system at a specific location (as per previous post from Marianne)
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For step 5... see a method here:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-mount-hard-drive-folder-windows-10
alireza1023 wrote:
Sorry Marianne
what's nested volume? and my question is can I deploy MSDP with 32TB and use it as a backup server and after a while I expand it to 64TB and so on?
You may want to read the article again?
You can start with 2 volumes - 1 x 1TB for MSDP Catalog, 1 x 32TB volume.
Then add more 32TB volumes as needed, following instructions in the article.Nested volumes are described in the article - the volumes are mounted as folders under the same drive letter.
Have a look at the example in the article :
.... each (32TB) data# directory is a nested mount.
"c:/msdp/data1" ,"c:/msdp/data2" ,"c:/msdp/data3"
Catalog volume: "c:/msdp/cat"So, if you want to start with 32TB, you will just have c:/msdp/data1 and c:/msdp/cat as a start.
When you want to add another 32TB volume, you will mount it as c:/msdp/data2 and use the crcontrol command to add the 2nd volume.For example:
C:\Program Files\Veritas\pdde\crcontrol --dsaddpartition c:\msdp\data2
