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Sun Fire X4500 as a Symantec
Netbackup 6.5 Media Server
A Quick Start Guide
Sun Microsystems
December 11, 2007

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  • Page 1 Sun Fire X4500 as a Symantec Netbackup 6.5 Media Server A Quick Start Guide Sun Microsystems December 11, 2007...
  • Page 2 Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The OPEN LOOK and Sun's Graphical User Interface was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. for its users and licensees. Sun acknowledges the pioneering efforts of Xerox in researching and developing the concept of visual or graphical user interfaces for the computer industry.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Sun Microsystems, Inc. Table of Contents Introduction...3 Configuration ... 4 Overview... 4 Solaris Configuration... 5 Zpool Configuration... 5 ZFS Configuration... 6 Netbackup Configuration... 7 Frequently Asked Questions... 16 Summary... 18 References... 19...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    3 Introduction Sun Microsystems, Inc. Introduction The Sun Fire (TM) X4500 server delivers massive storage capacity and remarkable throughput making it an ideal nearline storage platform for backup and restore applications. Combining the power of the Solaris 10 Operating System with the data integrity and simplified administration of ZFS, the X4500 becomes an ideal candidate for streamlining and improving backup/restore operations.

  • Page 5: Configuration

    4 Configuration Sun Microsystems, Inc. Configuration Overview The below diagram shows an example NBU configuration with the X4500 acting as a Media Server. The default NIC configuration on the X4500 allows up to four physical GigaBit Ethernet connections to be attached. The four connections can be utilized to back up four separate subnets, or the links can be aggregated together using dladm(1M) for improved throughput to a single subnet.

  • Page 6: Solaris Configuration

    \ raidz c0t4d0 c1t4d0 c4t4d0 c6t4d0 c7t4d0 \ raidz c0t5d0 c4t5d0 c5t5d0 c6t5d0 c7t5d0 \ raidz c0t6d0 c1t6d0 c4t6d0 c5t6d0 c6t6d0 \ raidz c1t7d0 c4t7d0 c5t7d0 c6t7d0 c7t7d0 \ spare c6t1d0 c5t3d0 c4t2d0 c1t5d0 c7t6d0 c0t7d0 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  • Page 7: Zfs Configuration

    -o mountpoint=/backup$fs nbupool/backup$fs done root@thumper1 # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT nbupool 46.8G 14.2T 39.1K /nbupool nbupool/backup1 14.8G 14.2T 14.8G /backup1 nbupool/backup2 10.8G 14.2T 10.8G /backup2 nbupool/backup3 5.38G 14.2T 5.38G /backup3 nbupool/backup4 15.8G 14.2T 15.8G /backup4 ALTROOT Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  • Page 8: Netbackup Configuration

    After the package is installed on the X4500. The Master Server EMM database must be updated with the new Media Server information. From the Master Server command line: # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbemmcmd -addhost -machinename thumper1 -machinetype media -masterserver sol-230 \ -netbackupversion 6.5 -operatingsystem solaris NBEMMCMD, Version:6.5 Command completed successfully. Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Page 9 8 Configuration Sun Microsystems, Inc. Where “machinename” is the name of the X4500 and “masterserver” is the name of the Master Server. The results of this command can be verified # nbemmcmd -listhost NBEMMCMD, Version:6.5 The following hosts were found:...
  • Page 10 9 Configuration Sun Microsystems, Inc. Use the NetBackup GUI for the remaining configuration Verify that the Media Server is recognized via “Host Properties -> Media Servers” Click on the X4500 hostname to ensure the Media Server is “Connected” The Master Server will already be listed.
  • Page 11 Sun Microsystems, Inc. To create a Storage Unit using the ZFS filesystems previously configured, follow the below procedures “Storage -> Storage Units” Right-Click to add new Storage Unit...
  • Page 12 Storage Unit Configuration • Use Basic Disk as the Type • Ensure the Media Server is the X4500 • Set the Absolute pathname to one of the ZFS filesystems Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Page 13 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Follow the same procedures for the rest of the ZFS filesystems you have configured.
  • Page 14 Sun Microsystems, Inc. The individual Storage Units could then be used as backup destinations, however, configuring Storage Groups can prove beneficial. Add a New Storage Group...
  • Page 15 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Add the Storage Units that have been created into a Storage Group. The Storage Unit Selection will be “Round-Robin”. This will ensure that backup streams are allocated across all units.
  • Page 16 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Once the Storage Group is configured, the Policy Attributes for the backup jobs can be configured to use the Storage Group as the “Policy Storage”.

  • Page 17: Frequently Asked Questions

    Zpool configuration is not a driving factor for performance. The network/CPU load becomes the bottleneck before the Zpool. Q2: Has the configuration been tested with 10GB Ethernet? X4500 NBU Scalability GigE Ports Sun Microsystems, Inc. RAIDZ1-6Spares RAIDZ1-NoSpares Mirror-NoSpares...
  • Page 18 17 Frequently Asked Questions Sun Microsystems, Inc. A2: Yes. A Proof-of-Concept was done for a large customer and 10GB Ethernet was part of the testing. Using a Neterion Xframe II and the xge driver, 8 clients capable of delivering 100MB/sec each were configured to backup to a X4500.

  • Page 19: Summary

    Summary This guide was a Quick Start introduction into configuring the Sun Fire X4500 as a disk-cache Media Server for Veritas Netbackup 6.5. It gave examples on configuring the zpool and zfs filesystems on Solaris and how to configuration the Netbackup application to utilize the X4500.

  • Page 20: References

    19 References References i. Veritas Netbackup 6.5 Documentation 1. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/search_forms/doc_list.asp?DocType=Comp&C LSUB=NBUESVRSUB11682&MSUB=NBUESVRSUB11686&SearchArea=ALL&el=%2C+1& ddProduct=NBUESVR&pid=&width=&SearchTerm=&subject=NBUESVRSUB11686&Pro ductVersion=NBUESVRPVER24910&language=English ii. Sun Fire X4500 Document Collection http://www.sun.com/products-n- solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/x64_servers/x4500/index.html iii. Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection 1. ZFS Admin Guide - 2. IP Services Guide - iv. Solaris Internals Website 1.

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