Hi,
I'm configuring a Windows 2008 R2 media server running NB7.5.0.6 to write to tape from Data Domain storage. It has two network connections to different switches, as each switch can only offer a max throughput of 1gb, so I want to utilise both to maxmimse throughput.
How do I set this up? Do I create a second hostname and then create two connections to data domain using nbdevconfig and tpconfig? For example my if servername is server1 and Data Domain hostname is dd01 my plan so far is:
Configure hostname server1_a with ip 10.0.0.1
Configure hostname server1_b with ip 10.0.0.2
Create nbdevconfig entries on the media server for both hostnames:
nbdevconfig -creatests -stype DataDomain -storage_server dd01 -media_server server1_a
nbdevconfig -creatests -stype DataDomain -storage_server dd01 -media_server server1_b
Then after adding the tape library to Netbackup using the Configure Storage Devices create two storage units for it, one with server1_a as the media server and one with server1_b, e.g SL150_Library_Server1_A and SL150_Library_Server1_B.
Finally configure half of my SLPs for tape writes to use SL150_Library_Server1_A, and the other half to use SL150_Library_Server1_B.
As far as i can see this would work, the only clumsy aspect is that there's no automatic load-balancing, we would have to manually assign the tape library storage units for each SLP so that both are used equally.
Or is there a better way?
Thanks!