Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5

Ryan Arneson, April 2008

Introduction

This guide is an introduction to configuring the Sun Fire X4500 server as a disk-cache media server for the Symantec Veritas NetBackup application. It provides an example of configuring the ZFS file system on the Solaris 10 08/07 OS and configuring the NetBackup 6.5 application to utilize the Sun Fire X4500 server as its media server.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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Contents

• Summary
• Introduction
• Configuration
  • Configuring the Disks
  • Creating zpools
  • Configuring ZFS
  • Configuring Symantec Veritas NetBackup
  • Completing the Configuration
  • Setting Up Storage
• Frequently Asked Questions

For More Information

Here are additional resources:

• Sun storage download page
• These and other Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/:
  • Sun Fire X4500 Server Administration (WET-5060)
  • Designing Storage Area Networks (NWS-4940)
• Storage and Information Lifecycle Management course catalog
• Support:
  • Register your Sun gear
  • Services
  • SunSolve Online
• Discussions such as the Storage Forums
• The following documents at http://docs.sun.com:
  • Sun Fire X4500 Document Collection
  • Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection:
    • Solaris ZFS Administration Guide
    • System Administration Guide: IP Services
• Sun wikis, for example:
  • Sun Storage Administration Wiki
  • Storage Developers' Wiki
  • Storage System Patterns Wiki
  • Storage BluePrints Wiki
  • BigAdmin Storage Tech Tips Wiki
• Related sites:
  • ZFS Best Practices Guide on the Solaris Internals web site
  • Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5 Documentation
  • BigAdmin Storage Resource Collection
  • Sun Storage web site
  • Storage Stop Blog
• Events of interest to users of Sun products:
  • Worldwide developer events
  • Current events