Netbackup with SL500
Updated: 30 Jun 2011 | 5 comments
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Hello,
We recently upgraded our SL500 tape library from 30 to 50 slots. I have not been able to get the 20 new slots to show up in Netbackup 6.5 using any of the wizards or other options i've seen. I checked the documentation but didn't find much about adding slots with existing hardware.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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NBU will only report on the
NBU will only report on the slots that the robot does.
Use robtest 's s' to report on all slots. This is a direct request to the robot.
If it still reports only 30 slots, call the hardware engineer back who installed the extra slots.
Not sure about the SL500, but the older L700 had a 'stopper' on the robot floor that had to be removed to allow the robot to inventory the additional slots. If this robot works the same, the engineer probably forgot to remove this 'stopper' when he installed the additional slots.
Is there a glass window on the robot? If you IPL the robot, you should be able to see if the new slots are inventoried upon startup.
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You may need to power cycle
You may need to power cycle the robot, so it reinventories its physical devices.
NBU 7.0.1 on Solaris 10
writing to EMC 4206 VTL
duplicating to LTO2 in SL8500
(Soon to be LTO5)
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You cat fill new slots with
You can fill new slots with tapes and do "Inventory Robot". If slots are properly licensed you will see new tapes.
If you want to see how many slots are licensed, you can't do it with NetBackup, you must use SLConsole.
To see available slots in
To see available slots in library ...
vmcheckxxx ....
This command will list all the slots netbackup has access to and tell you whether or not there is a tape in the slot. I use this command in a script to tell me how many slots I have free so I know how many scratch tapes I can put in.
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Thank you
Thank you Marianne, David, and Lopez for your help. robtest 's s' displayed the new slots and adding tapes got them to show up!
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