10-13-2008 03:44 AM
Helo dear friends
I have some doubts regardsing a san client licensing ... we have base version installed which is presently backing up 20 clients(standard client ) in LAn .. we would liek to move all 20 clients from Lan to san based enviornment due to bandwidth issues .. we have only one master/media server,,,
which are the new additional components needed for implementing this change ?do i purchase enterprise
server license ...? what else are the other components needed
kinldy could you assist me for this please
regards
adad
10-13-2008 01:03 PM
Hi
1. NBU Enterprise Server License
2. NBU Enterprise Client License
3.a If you want SAN Media Server : SSO license per drive and FC zones.
3.b If you want SAN Client : a QLogic HBA (not connected to the library) for the Master and FC zones to transport SAN data from SAN clients to your Master.
I hope this can help
Regards
Vicente
10-13-2008 02:47 PM
You definitely need license for Enterprise Client and Enterprise server. Since you have aonly one master which is serving as media server as well you do not need license for SSO. You need Qlogic HBAs on master/media server.
Fibre Transport Media Servers are supported on Solaris 9 and 10 on SPARC hardware, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 on x86_64 hardware, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on x86_64 hardware. In both cases, the 64 bit operating systems and server components must be installed.
The Fibre Transport Server requires at least one QLogic 2340, 2342, 2344, 2460, 2462, or 2472 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter. This adapter is required for the special Target Mode drivers used for the SAN transport of data between the Client and Server. Adapters used as Target Mode Fibre Transports can not be used for Tape or Disk connectivity. Other Host Bus Adapters (Initiator Mode) must be used to provide external Disk and/or Tape on the Server. The Initiator mode devices do not need to be QLogic Adapters, see the NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List for more details on supported Initiator Mode devices.
Finally it is suggested, for optimum performance, that all servers used for Fibre Transports have PCI-X or PCI-Express slots available for the Fibre Transport Target Mode adapters. See the performance considerations section for more details.
The SAN Client option is supported on most of the Tier 1 clients. Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, and Aix are all supported as SAN Clients with the exception of Windows on the Itanium platform. In all cases, please refer to the NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List to verify Fibre Channel HBA compatibility for any particular platform.
10-13-2008 10:25 PM
thanks so much guys..
yes we have only onemaster/ media sever ., and i verified hba card is qlogic..
so is this all the license taht is needed for this ?
1 enterprise server license ?
2 enterprise client license for all the clients
do i need to purchase a San client agent also for tier 1 clients ?
we have few tier2 clients also i. what i should do for backing these clients ?..
kindly could you assist me,...
10-13-2008 10:28 PM
vicnente .,.we dont need SSO as this is only a one master / media server architecture
do we need san MEDia sever license and san client license ?
or is it enough i purchase just the enterprise sever and client?
kinldy could you guide me
regards
adad
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