Requirements for the SAN Shared Storage Option

The following are the minimum system requirements for running this release of the SAN Shared Storage Option:

Windows 2000/2003/2008 must be installed. You cannot use SAN SSO with the Windows Server Core installation option of Windows Server 2008.
Physical Memory Available, as shown in the Windows Task Manager, plus the File Cache should exceed 256 MB.
The SAN Shared Storage Option must be locally installed at each server that will be sharing secondary storage devices.
The devices in your SAN must be on the supported device list.

You can fine a list of compatible devices at the following URL:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/umi/V-269-2
All hardware drivers must be up to date and started.

You can fine a list of compatible drivers at the following URL:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/rd/bews-drivers.htm
The primary server must have enough space for the catalogs of all the servers in the SAN.

For a fibre channel-connected installation, note the following additional requirements:

A fibre channel host adapter and its device drivers must be installed and connected to the SAN.
A hub or switch must be connected to all the fibre to SCSI bridges or to the fibre libraries on the SAN.
All the robotic libraries must be connected to the SCSI bridges or to the fibre switches/hubs.
The hub or switch must be powered up before the bridges or fibre channel libraries.
All robotic libraries must be powered up before the bridges.
The bridges must be powered up before Windows loads the fibre channel driver (usually during the boot phase).

Note:

If the SAN Shared Storage Option is installed on a media server, Backup Exec disables all fibre channel-connected devices in Removable Storage. You cannot re-enable the devices in Removable Storage until the SAN Shared Storage Option and Symantec Device Drivers are uninstalled.