02-05-2017 01:26 AM
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07-20-2017 12:36 AM
NBU databases is the easy part - catalog backup and restore will be easiest (same hostname and Appliance version). If you can provide an NFS mount for basic disk STU to perform catalog backup, it will make the process even easier.
Dealing with dedupe and/or Advanced disk on the Appliance is the difficult part.
What are the sizes and are you duplicating or replicating to alternate storage?
This is how I see your options without consulting engagement:
If all data on Appliance disk resides on alternate storage, then you could expire all disk backups and remove the storage from NBU (there are TNs on how to remove MSDP from NBU).
Only take catalog backup when all 5230 disk storage (MSDP and Advanced Disk) has been removed from NBU.
You can then start clean with MSDP on new Appliance after Catalog recovery.
Consulting will be expensive but clean and less disruptive.
Catalog manipulation services can migrate the master server to the new appliance and demote the current appliance to media server.
This way you can continue to use the 5230 (there are a good number of years left for support).
If you want to decommission the 5230, you can then at your leisure start to duplicate images to the 5240 until you get to a point where you can remove the 5230 from the environment.
My guess is that the original post was not answered because all of us understand the complexity of disk storage on Appliances and that it cannot be unplugged and moved to another server.
There is a saying: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread..."
I remember looking at this post originally and hoped that someone else with more hands-on experience would reply....
Just out of curiosity:
Did the reseller that you are dealing with, not present you with a migration proposal?
07-19-2017 11:20 AM
07-20-2017 12:36 AM
NBU databases is the easy part - catalog backup and restore will be easiest (same hostname and Appliance version). If you can provide an NFS mount for basic disk STU to perform catalog backup, it will make the process even easier.
Dealing with dedupe and/or Advanced disk on the Appliance is the difficult part.
What are the sizes and are you duplicating or replicating to alternate storage?
This is how I see your options without consulting engagement:
If all data on Appliance disk resides on alternate storage, then you could expire all disk backups and remove the storage from NBU (there are TNs on how to remove MSDP from NBU).
Only take catalog backup when all 5230 disk storage (MSDP and Advanced Disk) has been removed from NBU.
You can then start clean with MSDP on new Appliance after Catalog recovery.
Consulting will be expensive but clean and less disruptive.
Catalog manipulation services can migrate the master server to the new appliance and demote the current appliance to media server.
This way you can continue to use the 5230 (there are a good number of years left for support).
If you want to decommission the 5230, you can then at your leisure start to duplicate images to the 5240 until you get to a point where you can remove the 5230 from the environment.
My guess is that the original post was not answered because all of us understand the complexity of disk storage on Appliances and that it cannot be unplugged and moved to another server.
There is a saying: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread..."
I remember looking at this post originally and hoped that someone else with more hands-on experience would reply....
Just out of curiosity:
Did the reseller that you are dealing with, not present you with a migration proposal?
07-20-2017 01:43 AM
07-20-2017 02:33 AM
Hi @paulantok @Marianne,
Thanks for the response.
I was thinking in this lines:
Current Setup - NBU Appliance 5230 version 2.6 (40TB)
New Setup - NBU Appliance 5240 version 3.0 (120 TB)
Proposal:
Is my proposal feasible?
Thanks.
09-14-2017 02:25 AM
09-14-2017 05:00 AM
Hi Marianne,
Actually we got the Virtual applaince unforunately there is limitation in Virtual Applaince it will not allow to add media server so we are now struck again
so please see couple option i'm think about
1. Duplicate images from new applaince 5240(media) to back to old Applaince 5230(master/media)
2. Expire images in new applaince and decommission the media server and MSDP pools
3. Factory reset and reimage the new applaince 5240
4. Configure the new applaince 5240 as master/media server with new name and ipaddress
5. Configure new msdp
6. Point all the clients to new netbackup domain
7. Create all the polices manaully in new netbackup domain
8. Create AIR between old 5230 to 5240
9 Do manual replication of old images to 5240
Please vaildate and if you have technical doc or script for nbreplicate will be highly apprecated
if Any other feasble option availabe please let me know
Thanks