Storeonce Federated Catalyst; Storeonce Catalyst Over Fibre Channel - HPE StoreOnce 6500 User Manual

Using local client host file entries will result in the source StoreOnce appliance not being able to
resolve the target FQDN address.

StoreOnce Federated Catalyst

• Consider that backups to StoreOnce Federated Catalyst stores will capacity balance across the
available Federated storage. Therefore, a StoreOnce service set running a VTL or NAS shares as well
as a StoreOnce Federated Catalyst store will lead to an imbalanced Federated Catalyst store.
Federated Catalyst is most suited to StoreOnce Federated configurations only.
• Federated Catalyst is best suited for use in federations with 2-4 federation members. Federated
Catalyst is most appropriate for multi-couplet StoreOnce systems.
• Be sure all media/backup servers can communicate directly with each Federation member.
• Do not contract a Federation member that contains backup items. Data loss will result, because
backup items span all Federation members. Allow all items to expire prior to contracting a Federated
store.

StoreOnce Catalyst over Fibre Channel

• Be sure the "Number of Devices per Login" is set appropriately for StoreOnce Catalyst Copy,
Windows, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris media and database servers.
• If running the StoreOnce as a nonroot or nonadministrator, be sure that the correct access
permissions have been set on the StoreOnce Catalyst over Fibre Channel client device files.
• When using StoreOnce Catalyst over Fibre Channel to StoreOnce 6500 and 6600 appliances, be sure
that a backup/media server is zoned with both StoreOnce nodes in the couplet. On a failover event,
the World Wide Name of the sister node will be used to communicate with both StoreOnce service
sets.
• Zone every backup/media server to a minimum of two Fibre Channel ports with at least two StoreOnce
node Fibre Channel ports across different Fibre Channel cards, ideally across different SANs. Multiple
connections allow for higher availability.
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