Decommission NetBackup Clustered Media Server

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I am trying to decommission a clustered NBU media server. It is NBU 6.5.6 configured as a failover (2 node) cluster on Windows Server 2003 using MSCS. I was able to use the nbdecommission tool for a standalone media server, but as the documentation states, the tool cannot deal with clustered servers.

I intend to follow the regular decommission procedure documented in http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH62119 but was wondering if there are any additional steps due to the fact in was a cluster (i.e. any references to individual nodes or cluster name in the EMM).

Any experience with this (good or bad!)? Thanks.

[RiaanBadenhorst · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Those steps should be fine. You can check the output of nbemmcmd -listhosts to verify all references to the cluster have been removed. You can also run a bpmedialist to verify there are no assigned media still listed under the clustered media. Verify the storage units have been deleted, and that no policies are pointing to them.

[bpup]

Thanks. The only step missing from the doc is to remove the cluster name after removing the individal nodes. Removed the cluster with nbemmcmd -deletehost -machinename <blah> -machinetype cluster. All seems good. Thanks.

Jim