Licensing Required

[Ed_patterson_2]

Why is it so hard...

What licenses are required for 3 Windows servers to backup to an EMC Data Domain?

I am getting so many different answers from my peers.

I think I need  

Count  Product

   1  Enterprise Server (Master)

   2  Media Server

   3  Open Drive Whatever It Is called

Note: It is a count, not a sequential list, that was a coincidence.

Thanks for any timely replies. 

[RiaanBadenhorst]

Clarify

Backup to DD directly, or backup to DD via a backup server?

And, how is DD connected? ost, vtl, cifs?

[Ed_patterson_2]

The Enterprise Server (Master) is a dedicated box but does nothing but hand out backup jobs. The 2 other servers are huge beasts that I would like to have send their jobs directly to the DD.

Everything is connected via GB ethernet ports on a Cisco 6509.

The DD presents one cifs share.

Thanks for the quick reply, this has been very frustrating. 

Ed

[RiaanBadenhorst · Accepted solution]

1 ENTERPRISE SERVER

2 ENTERPRISE CLIENTS

#EDIT : That is the most basic config.

You could have a much better solution but that would require you to have more licenses for the DD, specifically OST and boost. With that you would then need the data optimization per/TB license of Netbackup. That would unlock dedupe :)

[Ed_patterson_2]

My original reply must have got lost.

It is my understanding that deduplication and compression is handled by the DD. It is odd that from my Enterprise server I can manually create a file in the cifs share but I can not add the UNC as a storage unit. I am assuming it is referenced as a storage unit. I have only had tape libraries up to this point.

These are the current licenses on the Master Server. Gives me a headache....

          Feature: Additional clients (Active)
          Feature: ADIC DAS/SDLC Robotic Libraries (Active)
          Feature: Bare Metal Restore (Active)
          Feature: Base NetBackup (Active)
          Feature: DataStore (Active)
          Feature: Encryption (Active)
          Feature: Encryption (Legacy DES 40-bit) (Active)
          Feature: Encryption (Legacy DES 56-bit) (Active)
          Feature: Enterprise Vault Agent (Active)
          Feature: Enterprise Vault Agent (Active)
          Feature: Fujitsu LMF Robotic Libraries (Active)
          Feature: IBM ATL Robotic Libraries (Active)
          Feature: Inline Tape Copy (Active)
          Feature: Library Based Tape Drives (Active)
          Feature: Microsoft RSM Robotic Libraries (Active)
          Feature: Open File Backup (Active)
          Feature: Open File Backup (Active)
          Feature: Remote Client Support (Active)
          Feature: Remote Media Server Support (Active)
          Feature: Robotic Library Sharing Support (Active)
          Feature: Shared Storage Option (Active)
          Feature: StorageTek ACS Robotic Libraries (Active)
          Feature: Vault (Active)

[Marianne]

You really need to talk to your local Symantec reseller about licensing. If the 2 media servers will backup network clients, you will need Enterprise Server license keys for those as well. You will need proper license keys for the media servers before you will be able to install and add them to the master as media servers, followed by storage unit config. UNC path to CIFS share is added as Basic Disk Storage Unit with NBU services on the media server started as a domain user with write permissions on the share. But PLEASE! Adding DD as a CIFS share is soòoooo last century... The OST plugin with data optimization will unlock a whole buch of features that is too long to list here. The NBU hardware compatibility guide lists all the features that come with these licenses.