Symantec NetBackup - About OpenStorage requirements and limitations

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OpenStorage deployment (continued)
InstructionsTaskStep
See “About OpenStorage storage servers” on page 61.
See “About OpenStorage data movers” on page 62.
See “About OpenStorage server credentials” on page 61.
Learn about storage servers,
data movers, and credentials
Step 2
See “About OpenStorage disk pools” on page 63.
See “About spanning volumes on OpenStorage disk pools” on page 63.
Learn about disk poolsStep 3
See “About OpenStorage optimized duplication methods” on page 64.Learn about optimized
duplication
Step 4
See “About OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups” on page 66.Learn about optimized
synthetic backups
Step 5
See “About OpenStorage direct to tape” on page 67.Learn about copy to tapeStep 6
See “About Nirvanix cloud storage” on page 72.Learn about Nirvanix cloud
storage
Step 7
See “About provisioning the disk storage appliance” on page 77.
See “About installing the disk appliance plug-in” on page 78.
Learn about provisioning the
storage
Step 8
See “Configuring OpenStorage disk appliance storage” on page 81.
See “Configuring OpenStorage Nirvanix cloud storage” on page 83.
See the configuration
overview topics
Step 9
About OpenStorage requirements and limitations
The following are the requirements to use the OpenStorage option:
■ A NetBackup OpenStorage Option license key.
■ Storage that is exposed to NetBackup through a software plug-in that conforms
to the Symantec OpenStorage API.
OpenStorage does not support the following:
■ Storage unit groups
Information about supported systems is available.
See the NetBackup Release Notes.
Planning your deployment
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