09-15-2010 09:03 AM
I'd like to create a VCS clustered PDDO storage pool for NBU 7.01.
The customer site policy is boot from SAN. However documentation does not mention it.
Is this a good practice?
09-15-2010 05:01 PM
Although quite possible, relying on SAN disks (be it boot/data) for backup systems is not very good. A backup system should be able to run whether or not the SAN production storage is available.
It is your backup, and if your SAN storage is destroyed, you would need to be able to boot your backup system and restore back to SAN.
If your HW/BIOS/HBA BIOS supports SAN boot, then PureDisk (PDOS is really SLES 10) should be able to boot. So check HW and SLES 10 compatibility for your storage.
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09-23-2010 09:54 PM
Thanks for the comment. This customer has tow different SAN systems so I can boot from one and backup the other. My main concern is whether this is supported by Symantec or in case of a problem they'll send me to ...
09-25-2010 02:36 AM
Supportability is probably not an issue. Let's face it, if the SAN connectivity goes down, it's hardly the PureDisk software's fault! And yes, you'd get sent to HW vendors, SAN vendors to resolve your own issue. See if Novell supports it. Hope the SAN is stable/solid.....
Sounds like a bad idea....use the internal drive that shipped with the server for the OS.
12-15-2010 08:11 AM
We are also trying to configure a clustered storage pool as our replication site. PD 6.6.0.3 (will deploy 6.6.1) 5 node 4A/1P.
Install fails with VCS error
02-01-2011 01:09 AM
We have finally succedded.
The major problem was upgrading from 6.6.0 to 6.6.1 - we needed to remove the special drivers we received from HP