02-19-2009 06:19 AM
Hi, my customer wants to use a Sun VTL which has the capability in conjunction with NetBackup to write directly to Tape using NDMP. We understand that a Front End TB licence is required in either Standard or Enterprise variety depending on whether Replication or De-Dup is used but how is the NDMP transfer licenced?
In the Compatability Charts, VTL support is listed but under NDMP only NAS platforms are listed. On the price list, NDMP is a tiered option. If we have to licence the NDMP element, what Tier does it fall into?
Thanks.
02-19-2009 03:13 PM
02-20-2009 11:13 PM
02-23-2009 02:43 AM
You will need a TB liscense per TB of front end storage as you already know.
NDMP is liscensed seperately per NAS box, and tiered based on no. of CPUs i believe. 1 liscence allows you to set up as many NDMP drives as you like for a single NAS box, as long as those drives are liscensed themselves in a relevent way.
02-23-2009 02:59 AM
All,
This is exactly why I asked this question as there seems to be confusion. I am talking about a VTL that can use NDMP to move the virtual tape volumes out to real tape which not all VTL's can do. I am not talking about NAS filer heads using NDMP protocol. I beleive the correct answer was given early on in that with VTL's, NDMP data mover utility is included in the Front End TB licence. Perhaps the Licencing Guide could be made a bit clearer.
Alex
02-23-2009 03:08 AM
02-23-2009 07:56 PM