Introducing Advanceddisk; About The Advanceddisk Option - Symantec NetBackup Manual

Introducing AdvancedDisk

This chapter includes the following topics:

About the AdvancedDisk option

The NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage option lets you use the disk storage that is
attached to a NetBackup media server. (Attached means a file system mount on
the storage.) NetBackup aggregates the disks into pools of storage you can use for
backups. NetBackup manages the storage as logical entities (disk pools).
Figure 2-1
Figure 2-1
AdvDiskPool_Gold
The NetBackup AdvancedDisk storage option provides the following benefits:
About the AdvancedDisk option
shows a media server and attached disks.
AdvancedDisk storage components
AdvDiskPool_Silver
Disk volumes
Network file system
Is easy to deploy and use. NetBackup discovers the storage and uses familiar
NetBackup storage units and backup policies to use the storage.
Chapter
mounts
NetBackup media servers function as
both storage servers and data movers
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