Problem with boost over FC

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Hello Bernd,

As you may know, you need to assign a new name for the DD appliance when configuring FC.

When creating devices you will need to use the name assigned to FC instead of the host name, maybe this is the reason for the failure.

Thank you,

Carlos

Hello Bernd,

I found recently an issue where DDBoost over FC doesn't work when PowerPath is installed.

Do you have PP installed?

If so try to disable the Windows Powerpath system device GPX General Purpose Extension.

This device is used by PP when migrating disks or encrypting disks.

The drivers for VNX and Symmetrix continue to work when this device is disabled.

Reboot is required though for this change to take effect.

Thank you,

Carlos

Hallo Carlos,

I just had to reboot the backup server. I works now fine. I could create an IP and a FC boost device and mount them

parallel. But when I back up to the IP device and would like to clone from the FC device to an LTO6 drive networker

always reads from the IP device.

Any idea. EMC told me this is: works as designed.

regards

Bernd

Hi Bernd,

Yes, this is the way it works. If you backup through IP interface/name, then it will read form the IP interface/name.

Thank you,

Carlos