VERITAS NetBackup™ 6.0 Media Manager Device Configuration Guide for UNIX, Windows, and Linux N15280C September 2005
How To Use This Guide How To Use This Guide Keep the following points in mind when using this guide. ◆ Each server platform that is supported by NetB
Configuring Robotic Controls ◆ By NetBackup and Storage Migrator for SAN error recovery. ◆ By NetBackup and Storage Migrator for Quantum SDLT perfor
Configuring Robotic Controls Configuring SCSI Robotic Control Device Paths (2.4 kernel) The binary /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/make_scsi_dev creates device
Configuring Tape Drives Configuring Tape Drives To use SCSI tape drives, the following drivers must be configured in the kernel or loaded as modules:
Verifying The Device Configuration Adding Standard Tape Drives (2.6 kernel) Tape devices have multiple device files. However, NetBackup uses only the
Other Considerations (Advanced Topics) Since NetBackup uses only one minor number, you can modify the driver and support up to 128 tape devices. The s
Utilities to Test SCSI Devices Set lpfc_check_cond_err to a value of zero. NetBackup is unable to mount tapes if this variable is left at a value of o
Command Summary Command Summary The following is a summary of commands that may be useful when configuring devices. See the appropriate sections of th
7 Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 This chapter explains how to configure storage devices and install tape device drivers for use with Media Manager on a
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following points when performing the configurations described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support we
Installing Tape Device Drivers on 32 Bit Servers ▼ To use the Device Driver Installer wizard This wizard (located on the NetBackup CD) guides you thr
Getting Help Accessing the VERITAS Technical Support Web Site The address for the VERITAS Technical Support Web site is http://support.veritas.com. Th
Installing Tape Device Drivers on 64 Bit Servers ▼ To obtain the latest tape device drivers Visit the VERITAS support web site. http://www.support.ve
Index A accessibility features xii ACS (see Automated Cartridge System) AIX (see RS6000) AL-PA destination ID, Sun4/SPARC 13 AT&T style close 16,
I IBM RS6000 (see RS6000) install_ovpass script 30, 51 installing 32 bit tape device drivers, Windows 94 installing 64 bit tape device drivers, Window
remove_ovpass 31 sg.install, Sun4/SPARC 8 sgscan 13, 17, 26 SCSI logical unit numbers, Sun4/SPARC 23 passthru driver on RS6000 30 Sun4/SPARC 7 robotic
Accessibility Features a. From the main http://support.veritas.com page, click the E-mail Support icon. A wizard guides you to do the following: ◆ S
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1 Using This Guide Before You Start Configuring Devices Observe the following important points before using this guide to configure media servers or S
Before You Start Configuring Devices ◆ To minimize configuration errors, you can cut/paste configuration details from the text version of this config
General Device Configuration Sequence General Device Configuration Sequence Use the following general sequence when configuring your devices. 1. Phys
General Device Configuration Sequence 4 NetBackup Media Manager Device Configuration Guide for UNIX, Windows, and Linux
2 Sun Solaris This chapter explains how to configure storage devices for use with Media Manager running on a Solaris platform. After configuring the h
Disclaimer The information contained in this publication is subject to change without notice. VERITAS Software Corporation makes no warranty of any ki
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following points when performing the configurations described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support we
Preventing Possible System Problems Preventing Possible System Problems When system memory is limited, Solaris unloads unused drivers from memory and
Understanding the SCSI Passthru Drivers ◆ To collect TapeAlert information from tape devices allowing support of functions such as tape drive cleanin
Configuring SG and ST Drivers Configuring SG and ST Drivers This procedure contains instructions for configuring the sg driver for SCSI targets 0 thru
Configuring SG and ST Drivers a. Make a copy of the /kernel/drv/st.conf file. b. Edit the /kernel/drv/st.conf file. Place a # in column one of each
Configuring SG and ST Drivers 4. The following is an example of the /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/driver/sg.links file to add targets 0-6, 8-15, and LUNs 0-1
Configuring the Sun StorEdge Network Foundation HBA Driver Configuring the Sun StorEdge Network Foundation HBA Driver The StorEdge Network Foundation
Configuring Robotic Controls The binding process is vendor and product unique. Please refer to the documentation available for your specific HBA. The
Configuring Robotic Controls /dev/sg/c2t2l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/10): "Quantum DLT4000" /dev/sg/c2t5l0: Tape (/dev/rmt/11): "QUANTUM DLT7000
Configuring Robotic Controls Example 3 Using the previous sgscan output, if the SCSI robotic control for an STK 9710 is SCSI ID 6 of adapter 8 and you
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix What
Configuring Tape Drives Example 7 (Fujitsu M8100 Stackers) The robotic control for the Fujitsu M8100 stacker is TSH. The unit must be set up to run in
Configuring Tape Drives Enabling locate-block NetBackup and Storage Migrator use the locate-block command by default if you did not uninstall the sg p
Configuring Tape Drives No rewind on close device files are in the /dev/rmt directory, and have the following format: /dev/rmt/LOGICAL_DRIVE cbn Where
Configuring Tape Drives Solaris Patches Some drives (for example, Quantum SDLT600) require Solaris patches for support. In these cases VERITAS lists t
Configuring Tape Drives If you were to omit four of the spaces in the vendor name as shown in the following example, the drive would not be recognized
Configuring Tape Drives "IBM ULT3580-TD2", "IBM 3580 Ultrium-2", "CLASS_LTO2", "IBM Ultrium-TD2", "IBM
Configuring Tape Drives BM-DLT = 1,0x38,0,0x18639,4,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,3; CLASS_3580 = 1,0x24,0,0x45863d,2,0x00,0x01,0; CLASS_3590 = 1,0x24,0,0x1c63d
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Adding Logical Unit Number Entries If the devices you are adding utilize the logical unit number (LUN) concept, (such
Configuring Optical Disk Drives To display the disk device files that are configured on your system, use the sgscan command with the disk parameter: #
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Example 2 Using the previous sample sgscan output, if the desired optical disk drive connects to SCSI ID 0 of S bus 1
Configuring Third-Party Fibre Channel HBA Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Configuring Robotic Controls . . . . . . .
Command Summary Command Summary The following is a summary of commands that may be useful when configuring and verifying devices. See the procedures i
3 IBM AIX This chapter explains how to configure storage devices for use with Media Manager running on an IBM AIX system. After configuring the hardwa
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following points when performing the configurations described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support we
RS6000 AIX Adapter Number Conventions The first digit of BB identifies the I/O bus containing the adapter card. If the card is in the CPU drawer or sy
The SCSI Passthru Driver (ovpass) The SCSI Passthru Driver (ovpass) Read this topic if you plan to use SCSI-controlled robotic peripherals or HP 1.2 g
Configuring Robotic Controls ▼ To ensure the driver device files are accessible after a system boot ❖ Add the following command to the system startu
Configuring Robotic Controls Configuring SCSI Robotic Controls Read this topic if you plan to use a robotic storage device that is controlled through
Configuring Robotic Controls 4. Display the FCP SCSI device files that have already been created by using the following command: /usr/sbin/lsdev -C -
Configuring Robotic Controls ◆ Inspect the odm database for any tape devices in the robot using the following command: /usr/bin/odmget -q "name
Configuring Robotic Controls Note Note that the smc device file only exists for IBM robots using the Atape driver. If smc0 device files exist for SCS
Configuring SCSI Robotic Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Examples of SCSI Robotic Control
Configuring Robotic Controls The output shows that the device files exist for tape and disk, but not for the SCSI robotic control at controller 1 (scs
Configuring Robotic Controls 4. Display the device files by issuing the lsdev command. /usr/sbin/lsdev -C -s scsi hdisk0 Available 00-01-00-0,0 400
Configuring Tape Drives If this is the case, the host system which is connected to Drive 1 must also have the robotic control. Also, the library shoul
Configuring Tape Drives Configuring Non-QIC Tape Drives The terms variable length block or fixed length block refer to the behavior of reads and write
Configuring Tape Drives Automatic Configuration When a tape drive is configured using NetBackup, NetBackup will automatically issue the chdev command
Configuring Tape Drives This sample output shows that SCSI controller 1 (00-01) has been assigned the logical identifier scsi0. scsi0 Available 00-01
Configuring Tape Drives You can display the newly created logical identifier for the device by using the lsdev command. /usr/sbin/lsdev -C -s scsi hdi
Configuring Tape Drives 3. Create the desired device files by using the following command: mkdev -c tape -t ost -s scsi -p scsi0 -w 5,0 4. Display t
Configuring Tape Drives To use density setting 1, use the following no rewind on close device file: /dev/rmt*.1 To use density setting 2, use the foll
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Configuring Optical Disk Drives When adding optical disk drives to a Media Manager configuration, you specify only a c
Configuring Device Files for the spt Passthru Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Configuring Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Configuring Optical Disk Drives If the device files for the SCSI optical disk drives exist, they show up in the output as hdisk0, hdisk1, and so on. h
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Examples of Optical Disk Device Files Assume the device files for the desired optical disk drive (controller 1, SCSI I
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Setting the HP Optical Drive Type in Nonvolatile Memory To use HP optical disk drives, the system must recognize the o
Configuring Optical Disk Drives The following example output shows that a disk drive, a tape drive, an optical drive, and SCSI robotic control are con
Configuring Optical Disk Drives 3. Use the following command to change the device type (stored in the drive’s nonvolatile memory) from optical memory
Command Summary Command Summary The following is a summary of commands that may be useful when configuring devices. See the procedures in this chapter
Command Summary mkdev -c tape -s scsi -t ost -p controller -w id,lun Creates device files for tapes. Where controller is the logical identifier of the
4 Hewlett-Packard HP-UX This chapter explains how to configure storage devices for use with Media Manager running on an HP-UX system. After configurin
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following points when performing the configurations described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support we
Configuring Robotic Controls Configuring Robotic Controls Robots are controlled through a SCSI or a network connection. Robot control configuration ca
Device-Specific Entry for HP Ultrium 460 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Device-Specific Entry for HP Ultrium 230e
Configuring Robotic Controls Example 1: Built-in SCSI interface (sctl driver) ioscan -f Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description =
Configuring Robotic Controls If the devices do not exist, you can create device files by using the mknod command as follows. See the scsi_ctl(7) man p
Configuring Robotic Controls Examples of Creating Device Files Example 1 In this example the robotic control for a ADIC Scalar 100 library is on a SCS
Configuring Robotic Controls Example 2 Assume the robotic control for an Exabyte 10i tape stacker (TS8) is on a built-in SCSI bus at SCSI ID 3, LUN 0.
Configuring Robotic Controls 3. The commands to create the passthru device file for the tape drive follow. See the “Command Summary” on page 70 for t
Configuring Robotic Controls 3. Use the following commands to create the device file for the SCSI robotic control: mkdir /dev/spt mknod /dev/spt/Name
Configuring Tape Drives 4. Create the device file as follows: mknod /dev/spt/c1t3l0 c 137 0x013000 This command creates the /dev/spt/c1t3l0 device fi
Configuring Tape Drives ◆ To collect TapeAlert information from tape devices allowing support of functions such as tape drive cleaning. ◆ For WORM t
Configuring Tape Drives The IBM library contains 2 IBM Ultrium LTO drives, one with SCSI ID 4, SCSI LUN 0 and the other with SCSI ID 5, SCSI LUN 0. Us
Configuring Tape Drives 3. The commands to create the passthru device files for the tape drives are as follows: cd /dev/sctl /usr/sbin/mknod c7t0l0 c
Installing Tape Device Drivers on 64 Bit Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Configuring Tape Drives Enabling SCSI Reserve/Release This is a NetBackup Enterprise Server topic. The VERITAS implementation of SCSI reserve/release
Configuring Tape Drives No Rewind Device Files When adding tape drives to the Media Manager configuration, you need only specify a no rewind on close
Configuring Optical Disk Drives Configuring Optical Disk Drives When adding optical disk drives to the Media Manager configuration, you need only spec
Handling Errors when More Than 10 NetBackup Jobs are Active Using the Configure Storage Devices Wizard with Optical Disk Drives The Media Manager devi
Command Summary ▼ To modify the kernel The following procedure uses the /usr/sbin/sam utility to change the value of semmnu to 50. A reboot is neces
Command Summary mknod /dev/spt/Name c Major 0xIITL00 Creates device files for SCSI robotic or tape drive controls. Name is the device name as defined
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5 Hewlett-Packard Tru64 This chapter explains how to configure storage devices for use with Media Manager running on an HP Alpha system. After configu
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following points when performing the configurations described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support we
--------------------------------------------------------------Configuring Tape Drives Creating SCSI Robotic Control Device Files Media Manager require
Preface This guide contains configuration information for adding storage peripherals (devices) to NetBackup media servers or SAN media servers control
--------------------------------------------------------------Configuring Tape Drives Adding Standard Tape Drives Media Manager requires that no rewin
Configuring Tape Drives Adding Nonstandard Tape Drives This topic applies to the following drive types: ◆ HP LTO ◆ Seagate LTO ◆ STK 9840 Some t
Configuring Tape Drives DensityCode = 0x42 Blocking = 0 CompressionCode = 1 Buffered = 1 Speed = 0 # # Ultrium mode select parameters for rewin
Configuring Tape Drives DENSITY: DensityNumber = 1 OneFileMarkOnClose = yes DensityCode = 0x00 Blocking = 0 CompressionCode = 0x1 Buffered = 0x1 Devic
Configuring Tape Drives Device-Specific Entry for STK 9840 SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Stype = 2 Name = "STK" "9840" PARAMETERS: TypeSu
Command Summary DENSITY: # # /dev/tape/tapeX_d2, _d6 # DensityNumber = 2,6 DensityCode = 0x43 CompressionCode = 0 Buffered = 0x1 Command Summary The f
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6 Enterprise Linux This chapter explains how to configure devices for use with Media Manager on an Intel host platform running Linux. After configurin
Before You Start Before You Start Observe the following important points when performing the tasks described in this chapter: ◆ The VERITAS support w
Using the Passthru Driver ◆ Establishes a default tape driver operating mode. If the operator changes the default mode, NetBackup may be unable to co
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