NetBackup Flex Appliance Tape Library

[Aboualam]

Do we need to install the tape library drivers on the netbackup flex appliance to be able to discover it ?

They are connected together through a SAN switch and they are zoned together.

The tape library version is a HPE MSL 2024 

[StefanosM · Accepted solution]

no you do not need to install anything.

The steps are

• do the zoning
• connect to the flex UI
• go to Fiber Channel interfaces
• run a scan to both ports.
• configure the ports for tape
• configure netbackup the usual way.

[sanket_pathak1]

in addition to what @StefanosM has listed.... 

* map the discovered tape drives to Media Server Instance. This may need media server instance to stop/start

* Finally configure the tape drive in NetBackup usual way.

Hope it helps.

[Aboualam]

thank you @StefanosM  and @sanket_pathak1 for your answers and sorry for the late replay