Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
- Introducing disk appliance storage solutions
- Planning your deployment
- About OpenStorage disk pools for backups
- About OpenStorage direct to tape
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing OpenStorage
- Configuring OpenStorage in NetBackup
- Configuring an OpenStorage disk pool for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage unit
- Configuring optimized duplication to an OpenStorage device within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring replication to an OpenStorage device in a different domain
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Managing OpenStorage
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Managing OpenStorage server credentials
- Managing OpenStorage data movers
- Managing OpenStorage disk pools
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool properties
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Troubleshooting
Installing the disk appliance plug-in
If your storage is a disk appliance, the storage vendor's release package includes a plug-in to communicate with NetBackup. The plug-in installs on the NetBackup media servers that connect to the storage server.
Table: To install the disk appliance plug-in
Step | Task | Procedure |
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1 |
Install the plug-in on all NetBackup media servers that connect to the appliance. |
See the vendor's installation instructions. The vendor's plug-in installation process may also configure the storage server. |
2 |
Restart the NetBackup Remote Manager and Monitor Service on each media server on which you install the plug-in. |
After the installation of the plug-in, newly created storage servers and disk pools inherit all of the functionality that the vendor exposes in their plug-in. However, if the vendor updates the plug-in to add new functionality, you must update existing storage servers and disk pools to use that new functionality.
See Updating an OpenStorage storage server to reflect plug-in updates.
Vendor plug-ins must be 64-bit except for Windows Server 2008 R2, which may be 32-bit.
See Adding OpenStorage functionality to an existing environment.