How to create an Advanced Disk disk pool using a media server and its file systems

Description

To quickly create a disk pool, do the following:

1. Install the Advanced Disk NetBackup Licenses on the primary/master server and any media servers that will use Advanced Disk.
2. Create a Storage Server using the following command.
   • Example:
     nbdevconfig -creatests -storage_server media1 -stype AdvancedDisk -st 5 -media_server media1
3. Create an Advanced Disk Disk Pool.
   • Build list of file systems to use in disk pool
     • Example:
       nbdevconfig -previewdv -stype AdvancedDisk -storage_server media1 -media_server media1 -dvlist /tmp/dvlist
   • Edit /tmp/dvlist and delete all the file systems that are not supposed to be part of the disk pool. The file /tmp/dvlist should then look something like this example below, with only the desired file systems in it.
     • Example:
       V6.5 DiskVolume < "/other1" "/other1" 2105089024 720333824 0 0 0 >
V6.5 DiskVolume < "/other2" "/other2" 84598731776 83207343104 0 0 0 >
   • Create the disk pool:
     • Example:
       nbdevconfig-createdp -stype AdvancedDisk -dp MYDISKPOOLNAME -storage_servers media1 -dvlist /tmp/dvlist  

When this is complete, create a new Storage Unit referencing the disk pool.

Note: The directory path to this command is...
  UNIX/Linux: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/
  Windows: <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\