Configuring Disk-Based Storage; To Configure Storage Devices - HP D2D Manual

3 Configuring disk-based storage

Once you have set up the shares the Symantec NetBackup administration console should be used
to set up the Storage Units.
NetBackup Storage has three basic categories:
disk, which is the category used with the D2D NAS configuration for NetBackup Storage
media manager, which is for tape libraries and should be used for real tape devices and
virtual tape libraries
NDMP, which is a special protocol designed to instruct NAS devices (filers) to back up to a
real tape drive directly attached to the NAS peripheral. Data can then be moved from the
NAS share to tape.
Disk-based storage in NetBackup 7 can be one of the following categories:
1. Basic Disk. This is locally-attached disk storage or network-attached disk storage presented as
a filesystem to the media server. The directory structure is specified when the storage unit is
created. This is the standard configuration for D2D NAS. Basic disk cannot be used in a
storage lifecycle policy.
2. NearStore. This is a special configuration for NetApps NAS only. This is also on OpenStorage
option.
3. SnapVault. This option is only usable if the NetBackup snapshot client is licensed. (NetApps
NAS devices only).
4. OpenStorage (vendor name). This is used for intelligent storage devices which are OST protocol
aware. This option is vendor specific.
5. Advanced Disk. This option allows NetBackup to use dedicated disk storage (can be network
attached from NetBackup 7 onwards). This allows disks to be part of a storage 'pool'.
Advanced disk is licensed under the 'Enterprise Disk License'. Storage Lifecycle Policies can
be used with Advanced disk.
6. PureDisk can only be used if this license installed. This provides software based deduplication.

To configure storage devices

1. Run the Symantec NetBackup management console and click on the Configure Storage Devices
icon in the wizard.
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