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Sun Fire X4500 Server as Storage Node for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software 7.4

Ryan Arneson, April 2008

Introduction

This paper describes how to configure the Sun Fire X4500 server as a disk-cache storage node for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (EBS), plus it provides examples of configuring the zpool and ZFS file systems on the Solaris 10 OS and configuring the EBS application to use the Sun Fire X4500 server.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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Contents

• Summary
• Introduction
• Configuration
  • Configuring the Disks
  • Creating Zpools
  • Configuring ZFS
  • Installing EBS Options
  • Configuring the EBS Storage Node
  • Configuring each ZFS File System as a Storage Device
  • Creating a Media Pool
  • Configuring Client Backups
• Frequently Asked Questions

For More Information

Here are additional resources:

• Sun storage download page
• These and other Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/:
  • Sun Fire X4500 Server Administration (WET-5060)
  • Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup 7.x Administration (ES-260)
  • Designing Storage Area Networks (NWS-4940)
• Storage and Information Lifecycle Management course catalog
• Support:
  • Register your Sun gear
  • Services
  • SunSolve Online
• Discussions such as the Storage Forums
• The following documents at http://docs.sun.com:
  • Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software Release 7.4 Documentation
  • Sun Fire X4500 Document Collection
  • Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection:
    • Solaris ZFS Administration Guide
    • System Administration Guide: IP Services
• Sun wikis, for example:
  • Sun Storage Administration Wiki
  • Storage Developers' Wiki
  • Storage System Patterns Wiki
  • Storage BluePrints Wiki
  • BigAdmin Storage Tech Tips Wiki
• Related sites:
  • ZFS Best Practices Guide on the Solaris Internals web site
  • BigAdmin Storage Resource Collection
  • Sun Storage web site
  • Storage Stop Blog
• Events of interest to users of Sun products:
  • Worldwide developer events
  • Current events

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