advanced disc/basic disc

[Dirk_Mueller]

HI,

I have 4 media servers and everyone has one advanced disk pool.

I can´t remember what´s the difference between advanced disk and basic disk.

Plz tell me in a few words the advantage of advanced disk pools.

TIA

Dirk

[Nicolai]

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_nbu_disk_based_data_protection_options_4_2008.pdf

This document explain the diffrent disk types.

[Yasuhisa_Ishika · Accepted solution]

In short,

AdvancedDisk

• You can extend its capacity by adding disk volumes into disk pool.
• It works with Storage Lifecycle Policy(SLP). SLP is more flexible than BasicDisk staging.

BasicDisk

• You can not extend its capacity by NetBackup operation.
  You need to extend filesystems to get more.
• It can not work with SLP. BasicDisk staging is only option.

[Dirk_Mueller]

Thanks for your answers.

Now I know - we work only with SLP - so we need advanced disks ans no basic disks.

Kind regards

Dirk

[Marianne]

Bear in mind that you will need Enterprise Disk license to config Advanced Disk.