You can avoid many installation problems by properly setting up your libraries and media drives. Read the appropriate sections before configuring your storage libraries.
Each tape library and drive can be directly attached to one or more MediaAgents via SCSI buses or remotely connected via a Storage Area Network (SAN). In addition, drives can be remotely accessed through a NetApp filer using the NDMP protocol. In any case, in order to manage the media changers and drives within a CommCell® group, the MediaAgent must know the SCSI address or NetApp filer drive address of each device, the MediaAgent that controls the device, and the library to which the device belongs.
You must configure libraries and drives when:
| We strongly recommend you to verify and ensure that proper hardware zoning of tape drives be implemented, especially when you have HBA failover implemented in your environment. For more information on zoning of HBA failover, contact your HBA software vendor. |
Contact your software provider for a list of storage devices (libraries, drives, media and SAN devices) and compatible SCSI cards supported by MediaAgents.
If the storage devices are attached to NAS filers, or UNIX computers, (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX or Tru64) refer to the appropriate vendor documentation for a list of compatible devices.
| NDMP Remote Server is only supported for Windows and Solaris MediaAgents. |
The software supports the use of the following general types of SCSI based devices:
Each type requires its own set of adapters, cabling, devices (i.e., media drives) and terminators. Because they are electrically incompatible with each other, you must not mix them (e.g., by connecting a single-ended adaptor, cable, or terminator to a differential drive).