Puredisk -MSDP [how to convert advance disk to puredisk on media server]
Hi Experts, On media server [NBU 7.7.3 windows 2008 R2 standard] , 5 logical volumes are configured. I want to configure and utilize free space and make one volume for MSDP. windows partitions or drives are configured in this way. V: - advanced disk : 5TB => empty W : advanced disk : 5TB => empty x: advanced disk : 5TB => 12G used deduplication meta data Y: Puredisk : MSDP : 5TB => 3TB used for backup Z: advanced disk : 5TB => empty In windows 2008 i'm not sure if i can merge the other volumes to Y: drive, Is there any way to make a one volume ? or do i need to de-stag backup to tape or other disk and delete and recreate one big partition. should i delete all advanced disk from netbackup console and then from server? Which approach is best ? please suggest. Thank you dpxMedia servers [Virtual, Physical]
Hi Experts, I've couple of queries related media physical, virtual [VM -backup host] servers. 1. Physcial media server: i have 3 media servers and each media server has 2 ports FC card which is an initiator. i want to do offload from disk to tape + separate offload + FC SAN clients does it make sense if i install 2 FC cards with 2 ports each and configure one FC card[ 2ports] as target and use one FC for OFFLOAD to tape + for FC SAN clients ? and 2nd FC card [as initiator ] for SAN based backup ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Backup host [VM- Hotadd]: I want to configure VM backup host for hotadd backup of virtual machine. Do i need to aquire a new license for new media server ? how i can check this from existing licenses ? is there any command to see the quantity used or available from installed licenses? I need your suggestions, if this is good approach to solve some slow backup or increase the backup performance. Many Thanks dpx