Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Guide


|Requirements

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|You must meet the following requirements when setting up Tivoli Data |Protection for NDMP: |

| Operating System for the Tivoli Storage Manager Server
|Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or later, or Windows 2000 with |Service Pack 2 or later.

|Tivoli Storage Manager
|Both of the following products are required: |
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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 4.2.1 or |later.

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Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP, a separately licensed program |product. |

|NAS File Server |
|A Network Appliance File Server. The operating system on the file |server must be supported by Tivoli Storage Manager. Visit http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.

|The combination of file server model and operating system must be supported |by Network Appliance. Visit http://netapp.com/products/filer/index.html.

|Tape Library | |
|A SCSI-attached or Fibre Channel-attached library that is supported by the |Tivoli Storage Manager device driver. Visit http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.

|The tape library is controlled by the Tivoli Storage Manager server using |one of the following methods: |

|Library Sharing:
|The Tivoli Storage Manager server that performs NDMP operations can |be a library manager, but cannot be a library client. If the Tivoli |Storage Manager server that performs NDMP operations is a library manager, |that server must control the library directly and not by passing commands |through the NAS file server. |

|Tape Drives |
|One or more tape drives in the tape library. The NAS file server |must be able to access the drives. The drives must be supported by the |Network Appliance file server and its operating system for tape backup |operations. Visit http://netapp.com/products/filer/index.html.
|Drive Sharing:
|The tape drives can be shared by the Tivoli Storage Manager server |and one or more NAS file servers. If the Tivoli Storage Manager server |controls the library directly, the drives can be shared: |
  • |By one or more NAS file servers and one or more Tivoli Storage Manager |library clients, if the drives are accessible to the library clients.
  • |By one or more NAS file servers and one or more Tivoli Storage Manager |storage agents, if the drives are accessible to the Tivoli Storage Manager |server. |
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|Verify the compatibility of specific combinations of a NAS file server, |tape devices, and SAN devices with the hardware manufacturers.


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