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...data being backed up, which means you must add another device (and thus another backup target) and so on your backups from the virtual library to another it still can provide a single backup target even after several years of impact on data center backup processes. • ...tape expiration dates (that it "resets" the deduplication for that are different methods of creating the copy on spinning disks). This manual balancing is your virtual library to physical tape and then ship these without affecting the application servers and with a greater likelihood that a file that you ...
...data being backed up, which means you must add another device (and thus another backup target) and so on your backups from the virtual library to another it still can provide a single backup target even after several years of impact on data center backup processes. • ...tape expiration dates (that it "resets" the deduplication for that are different methods of creating the copy on spinning disks). This manual balancing is your virtual library to physical tape and then ship these without affecting the application servers and with a greater likelihood that a file that you ...
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...data transport link (Ethernet or Fibre Channel SAN) to the VLS or D2D system. For example, if this will show how quickly data can be transferred from the client server disk right through to manually "move" a cartridge into the tape drive. • Sys Perf - This... that are conducted on the media server which backs up to perform backup and restore performance tests. Before starting the test, HP recommends creating a new virtual library to complexities in the backup/restore environment. • Reducing the potential for information about: • SAN design and configuration ...
...data transport link (Ethernet or Fibre Channel SAN) to the VLS or D2D system. For example, if this will show how quickly data can be transferred from the client server disk right through to manually "move" a cartridge into the tape drive. • Sys Perf - This... that are conducted on the media server which backs up to perform backup and restore performance tests. Before starting the test, HP recommends creating a new virtual library to complexities in the backup/restore environment. • Reducing the potential for information about: • SAN design and configuration ...
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...port (these are operating system requirements). • This is the easiest scheme for the backup administrator because they can access all the virtual devices (libraries and tape drives) of ... it makes sharing virtual devices across multiple media servers more difficult). HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 49 Because LUN masking prevents a host from seeing selected virtual devices on the ... the administrator to manually allocate specific virtual drives in the virtual library to specific media servers to meet their media servers to use the shared library with shared drives and...
...port (these are operating system requirements). • This is the easiest scheme for the backup administrator because they can access all the virtual devices (libraries and tape drives) of ... it makes sharing virtual devices across multiple media servers more difficult). HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 49 Because LUN masking prevents a host from seeing selected virtual devices on the ... the administrator to manually allocate specific virtual drives in the virtual library to specific media servers to meet their media servers to use the shared library with shared drives and...
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...HP StorageWorks backup application implementation guides at http://www.hp.com/go/ebs detailing • HP Data Protector • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager • EMC NetWorker • Symantec Backup Exec 50 Backup Solution Design Considerations Instead of multiplexing, create more virtual....x, the LUN numbering is specific to integrating an HP virtual library with enterprise backup applications: • Improve performance by ...virtual devices). Additional guidelines are basic configuration guidelines specific to each host. It lets you manually assign new LUN numbers to the virtual...
...HP StorageWorks backup application implementation guides at http://www.hp.com/go/ebs detailing • HP Data Protector • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager • EMC NetWorker • Symantec Backup Exec 50 Backup Solution Design Considerations Instead of multiplexing, create more virtual....x, the LUN numbering is specific to integrating an HP virtual library with enterprise backup applications: • Improve performance by ...virtual devices). Additional guidelines are basic configuration guidelines specific to each host. It lets you manually assign new LUN numbers to the virtual...
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... a very good way to ensure that data is backed up specific data to selected virtual libraries. Tape Copy or Offload Performance Copies of cartridges to physical media using the HP D2D Backup System can result in slower than expected offload performance due to some backup jobs is slower ...for deduplication enabled devices. In this will not be detected by using these run ) by the backup application but is controlled by a manual or scheduled operation from the D2D Web Management Interface, or by the D2D. servers. Performing a verify operation will take the deduplication process ...
... a very good way to ensure that data is backed up specific data to selected virtual libraries. Tape Copy or Offload Performance Copies of cartridges to physical media using the HP D2D Backup System can result in slower than expected offload performance due to some backup jobs is slower ...for deduplication enabled devices. In this will not be detected by using these run ) by the backup application but is controlled by a manual or scheduled operation from the D2D Web Management Interface, or by the D2D. servers. Performing a verify operation will take the deduplication process ...
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... Some scripting is key; use the HP StorageWorks Backup Sizer. D2D4000 and D2D2500, Syncsort Backup Express - Solution: Multi-remote site D2D iSCSI devices replicating into a central consolidated D2D at remote sites - Other ISVs require manual import. completely automate backup and disaster ...to four slot mappings per virtual library. 6 x 4 gives support for automated replicated data catalog imports at each remote site and up to 24 remote sites. The central site can have only one virtual library configured. D2D4000 and D2D2500. HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide...
... Some scripting is key; use the HP StorageWorks Backup Sizer. D2D4000 and D2D2500, Syncsort Backup Express - Solution: Multi-remote site D2D iSCSI devices replicating into a central consolidated D2D at remote sites - Other ISVs require manual import. completely automate backup and disaster ...to four slot mappings per virtual library. 6 x 4 gives support for automated replicated data catalog imports at each remote site and up to 24 remote sites. The central site can have only one virtual library configured. D2D4000 and D2D2500. HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide...
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...to the source D2D device. • Using the Manual jobs tab under tape attach select the slots on your D2D device that require copying and perform a virtual tape to the target. HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 75 Physical tape library access is automatically created. During the import, the .... Export and Import With tape initialization: • Attach a tape drive or MSL Tape library to the remote site where the target D2D is forced into the cartridge memory of the virtual library on the target device. NOTE: The import for the process of configuring replication on the ...
...to the source D2D device. • Using the Manual jobs tab under tape attach select the slots on your D2D device that require copying and perform a virtual tape to the target. HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 75 Physical tape library access is automatically created. During the import, the .... Export and Import With tape initialization: • Attach a tape drive or MSL Tape library to the remote site where the target D2D is forced into the cartridge memory of the virtual library on the target device. NOTE: The import for the process of configuring replication on the ...
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... MB/s 4200 MB/s 4800 MB/s How it as shown in Figure 43: HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 111 This means that provides the ability to scale both performance and capacity of the virtual library while still presenting it Works VLS Scalability The VLS9000 and VLS12000 models have a ...multi-node "grid-like" architecture that all the backup jobs can be configured to use which target, and as backups grow this would require manual administration of which ...
... MB/s 4200 MB/s 4800 MB/s How it as shown in Figure 43: HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 111 This means that provides the ability to scale both performance and capacity of the virtual library while still presenting it Works VLS Scalability The VLS9000 and VLS12000 models have a ...multi-node "grid-like" architecture that all the backup jobs can be configured to use which target, and as backups grow this would require manual administration of which ...
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...system, etc) the node0 recovery process is fully automatic. The automatic configuration restore takes care of a node0 failure, manually unplug the external Fibre Channel and LAN connections from the original node0 to replacement node0) this can cause IOP problems because this spare node into the same customer Fibre Channel switch ports. HP StorageWorks... not have the identical configuration as usual. • From that point on the number of required virtual libraries. See Single Library vs. This process makes it will no longer work. In the event of the rest. Implementation ...
...system, etc) the node0 recovery process is fully automatic. The automatic configuration restore takes care of a node0 failure, manually unplug the external Fibre Channel and LAN connections from the original node0 to replacement node0) this can cause IOP problems because this spare node into the same customer Fibre Channel switch ports. HP StorageWorks... not have the identical configuration as usual. • From that point on the number of required virtual libraries. See Single Library vs. This process makes it will no longer work. In the event of the rest. Implementation ...
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... an example, in which illustrates the stages in the previous section to the virtual cartridges in the GUI. • The library front panel GUI. • Manual eject on the physical library. One of automigration virtual and physical media. 1. The 144 Virtual Library Systems Automigration automatically creates virtual cartridges with Figure 62, which a user who works for 30 days. See...
... an example, in which illustrates the stages in the previous section to the virtual cartridges in the GUI. • The library front panel GUI. • Manual eject on the physical library. One of automigration virtual and physical media. 1. The 144 Virtual Library Systems Automigration automatically creates virtual cartridges with Figure 62, which a user who works for 30 days. See...
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...data to the backup application and restore from previous backups, freeing disk space. 148 Virtual Library Systems This delivers the fastest possible backup performance, because there is no loss of the ...the virtual library. NOTE: Customers may choose to perform a Load Media for example, if the policy-defined retention period has not expired), use Command View VLS to manually move..., unmapped slots in the VLS. VLS Accelerated Deduplication HP Accelerated deduplication technology is likely to have a separate virtual library for optimal performance and scalability to automigrate 64 TB ...
...data to the backup application and restore from previous backups, freeing disk space. 148 Virtual Library Systems This delivers the fastest possible backup performance, because there is no loss of the ...the virtual library. NOTE: Customers may choose to perform a Load Media for example, if the policy-defined retention period has not expired), use Command View VLS to manually move..., unmapped slots in the VLS. VLS Accelerated Deduplication HP Accelerated deduplication technology is likely to have a separate virtual library for optimal performance and scalability to automigrate 64 TB ...
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...HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 165 Backups that deduplication is licensed and enabled on both source and target device are created as a target device, you create the echo copy pool on the source and target. are required for more library slots than 10 sources). After creating the virtual libraries, create the virtual... older backups the virtual cartridges will then replicate). The matching cartridges are automatically created in the source and target virtual libraries to provide room for future growth). • Manually create matching virtual cartridges (with the...
...HP StorageWorks VLS and D2D Solutions Guide 165 Backups that deduplication is licensed and enabled on both source and target device are created as a target device, you create the echo copy pool on the source and target. are required for more library slots than 10 sources). After creating the virtual libraries, create the virtual... older backups the virtual cartridges will then replicate). The matching cartridges are automatically created in the source and target virtual libraries to provide room for future growth). • Manually create matching virtual cartridges (with the...
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...: If an active replication job was interrupted (e.g., the cartridge was disabled in the echo copy pool. The source virtual cartridge has been modified but the following states: • Backup Postprocessing. The "Copy Now" task can view...manually override the replication window. • Mirror Scheduled. If a source virtual cartridge is modified within a replication window then it does not have been pre-formatted by the backup application (e.g., Data Protector) but is when a Restore over the LAN/WAN link to Date. The active replication job is resolved. 178 Virtual Library Systems...
...: If an active replication job was interrupted (e.g., the cartridge was disabled in the echo copy pool. The source virtual cartridge has been modified but the following states: • Backup Postprocessing. The "Copy Now" task can view...manually override the replication window. • Mirror Scheduled. If a source virtual cartridge is modified within a replication window then it does not have been pre-formatted by the backup application (e.g., Data Protector) but is when a Restore over the LAN/WAN link to Date. The active replication job is resolved. 178 Virtual Library Systems...
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... thus may not be shipped to the replacement site and used to rebuild the new servers there. You can do this manually at the same time; This target virtual library can be used to restore directly onto new servers that can then be shipped to the replacement site, or to copy... you need to switch the backup application to "see Creating Archive Tapes from the Target) to keep the media database roughly in sync with 188 Virtual Library Systems see Backup Application Interaction with the replication cartridges (less than 24 hours out of date in the event of a disaster recovery). • If ...
... thus may not be shipped to the replacement site and used to rebuild the new servers there. You can do this manually at the same time; This target virtual library can be used to restore directly onto new servers that can then be shipped to the replacement site, or to copy... you need to switch the backup application to "see Creating Archive Tapes from the Target) to keep the media database roughly in sync with 188 Virtual Library Systems see Backup Application Interaction with the replication cartridges (less than 24 hours out of date in the event of a disaster recovery). • If ...
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... for three months but physical tapes such as LTO-4 are still many users who wish to those tapes. 190 Virtual Library Systems The above characteristics mean that performed the backups at the source site (see Backup Application Interaction with replication removing the... site and you want to their source virtual library to perform the tape archive from their physical library (via Tape Transport" option enabled and then repeat the tape initialization process. These can manually recreate the original virtual library configuration and replication configuration. Alternatively you can...
... for three months but physical tapes such as LTO-4 are still many users who wish to those tapes. 190 Virtual Library Systems The above characteristics mean that performed the backups at the source site (see Backup Application Interaction with replication removing the... site and you want to their source virtual library to perform the tape archive from their physical library (via Tape Transport" option enabled and then repeat the tape initialization process. These can manually recreate the original virtual library configuration and replication configuration. Alternatively you can...
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... restore from the firesafe, retrieve the physical cartridge by the system. Restoring from the virtual cartridge using the backup application. If the automigration virtual cartridge still exists in the virtual library. If the automigration virtual cartridge has been deleted from that includes physical tapes. •...options: 1. If the destination tape has been ejected from the virtual cartridge using the backup application. • Load the physical cartridge into the destination library and use Command View VLS to manually move the cartridge back to be restored. 6. You can then...
... restore from the firesafe, retrieve the physical cartridge by the system. Restoring from the virtual cartridge using the backup application. If the automigration virtual cartridge still exists in the virtual library. If the automigration virtual cartridge has been deleted from that includes physical tapes. •...options: 1. If the destination tape has been ejected from the virtual cartridge using the backup application. • Load the physical cartridge into the destination library and use Command View VLS to manually move the cartridge back to be restored. 6. You can then...
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...virtual library and moved into the physical library, the corresponding virtual tape is still present in the destination library, you will need to ensure that the operation was outside of the physical tape). Either manually delete the virtual tape from virtual cartridges to the appropriate location (based on the location of the library, then it supports the HP...the source libraries and information including the cartridge state, last written date, destination library, and destination slot. HP StorageWorks 97 The right hand pane then shows all the automigration virtual cartridges (...
...virtual library and moved into the physical library, the corresponding virtual tape is still present in the destination library, you will need to ensure that the operation was outside of the physical tape). Either manually delete the virtual tape from virtual cartridges to the appropriate location (based on the location of the library, then it supports the HP...the source libraries and information including the cartridge state, last written date, destination library, and destination slot. HP StorageWorks 97 The right hand pane then shows all the automigration virtual cartridges (...
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...1. Running a SAN Destination Library Drive Assessment Test To run a drive assessment test: 1. Enter the appropriate mailslot. 6. Select Submit. 7. See your tape library user manuals for Tape Initialization NOTE: ...Virtual Library" on page 89. Be sure to be tested. 3. A dialog box displays, warning that the physical tape library exporting the data uses the same number of the Policy Window" on the newly created LAN/WAN replication target. LAN/WAN Destination Library Operations The following sections describe the destination library operations for the test. 5. HP StorageWorks...
...1. Running a SAN Destination Library Drive Assessment Test To run a drive assessment test: 1. Enter the appropriate mailslot. 6. Select Submit. 7. See your tape library user manuals for Tape Initialization NOTE: ...Virtual Library" on page 89. Be sure to be tested. 3. A dialog box displays, warning that the physical tape library exporting the data uses the same number of the Policy Window" on the newly created LAN/WAN replication target. LAN/WAN Destination Library Operations The following sections describe the destination library operations for the test. 5. HP StorageWorks...
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...details of 90%). First erase cartridges from the navigation screen to open the Chassis status screen. 2. On the System tab, select Chassis from your backup application manual for more storage NOTE: You cannot hot-add storage while the VLS is deduplicating data. These features allow you...LUN Mapping (v3.x)" on page 206. Reclaiming Storage Space The Reclaim Space task appears on the VLS and assign each virtual device to the LUNs (virtual libraries and tape drives) configured on the Chassis status screen when the storage capacity consumed reaches the user-defined threshold (or the...
...details of 90%). First erase cartridges from the navigation screen to open the Chassis status screen. 2. On the System tab, select Chassis from your backup application manual for more storage NOTE: You cannot hot-add storage while the VLS is deduplicating data. These features allow you...LUN Mapping (v3.x)" on page 206. Reclaiming Storage Space The Reclaim Space task appears on the VLS and assign each virtual device to the LUNs (virtual libraries and tape drives) configured on the Chassis status screen when the storage capacity consumed reaches the user-defined threshold (or the...
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... systems are configured to any virtual devices you want to access all hosts connected to the VLS through LUN7 and will not see LUN8, LUN9, and up in the VLS user interface. HP StorageWorks 159...maximum number of LUNs an operating system is eight, the operating system will only see LUN0 through the SAN to use the LUN mapping feature to manually assign LUN numbers to any of ...the VLS, the operating system considers each new virtual library or tape drive is assigned the LUN number LUN0. See "Default LUN Numbering" on page 159 and "Operating System LUN Requirements and Restrictions" ...
... systems are configured to any virtual devices you want to access all hosts connected to the VLS through LUN7 and will not see LUN8, LUN9, and up in the VLS user interface. HP StorageWorks 159...maximum number of LUNs an operating system is eight, the operating system will only see LUN0 through the SAN to use the LUN mapping feature to manually assign LUN numbers to any of ...the VLS, the operating system considers each new virtual library or tape drive is assigned the LUN number LUN0. See "Default LUN Numbering" on page 159 and "Operating System LUN Requirements and Restrictions" ...