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New Disk Shelves Addition

Pranav0410
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Dear Geeks,

 

I am writing to know if we can add additional storage shelves in a Netbackup 5330 Appliance. Our appliance is running on Netbackup 7.7.3 . MSDP limit has been reached and we cannot expand it until we upgrade to 8.X

 

Now we have additional storage shelf attached and could see disks are showing in the manage>storage tab of the appliance GUI. 

 

What I like to know can we add these disks to expand our advanced disk pool  or we would need an upgrade to get these disks added.

Thanks,

Pb

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RiaanBadenhorst
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You can expand the adv pool. There is no limit that i know of.

Marianne
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Why not rather upgrade the Appliance software?
Version 2.7.x will  reach End of Standard Support (EOSS) on November 5, 2019.

Dear Marianne,

We do have the upgrade planned. For the upgrade we have to do pre conversion of our msdp pools.

So, the idea is if we can offload done stuff to advanced disk pool ( Archive logs etc) so we will have less number of images to be converted.

Is this a bad idea ?

Do we have any limit on storage shelves addition in 2.7.3 version on 5330 ? 

andrew_mcc1
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I’m not online to check but this should be in the NBU 5330 Appliance Product Description document for N2.7.3.

Andrew