I have a site where we have implemented 4 x 5020 appliances, each configured as a seperate device (no multi-node storage pools). Site is NBU 7104, with the appliances all at 1.4.2.
There is 1 master and four media servers, and the appliances have been configured as follows:
Media servers 30, 32 & 33 are on Primary Site, media server 34 on DR site.
Appliance 1 (Primary site) - Storage server configured as attached to media server 32, with media server 30 & 33 as additional 'helping' servers.
Appliance 2 (Primary site) - Storage server configured as attached to media server 32, with media server 30 & 33 as additional 'helping' servers.
Appliance 3 (DR site) - Storage server configured as attached to media server 32, with media server 30 & 33 & 34 as additional 'helping' servers.
Appliance 4 (DR site) - Storage server configured as attached to media server 32, with media server 30 & 33 & 34 as additional 'helping' servers.
Disk pools were configured and storage units created. For the storage units, one was created with 'use any available media server', and then one was created for each of the media servers 30, 32, 33 - with only that media server being selected.
I am running a job which backs up 8.5GB of data to Appliance 1, using the storage unit specific to media server 30. The next step of the SLP does a Duplicate, specifying the storage unit which has Appliance 3 and only media server 30 specified. The backup step runs then I get the following error:
19/10/2012 18:37:14 - requesting resource LCM_ie-dubadm030_BCS_NBU011 (this is appliance 3 at DR site, accesed through media server 30)
19/10/2012 18:37:15 - granted resource LCM_ie-dubadm030_BCS_NBU011
19/10/2012 18:37:18 - started process RUNCMD (8064)
19/10/2012 18:37:18 - ended process 0 (8064)
19/10/2012 18:37:20 - begin Duplicate
19/10/2012 18:37:23 - requesting resource ie-dubadm030_BCS_NBU011
19/10/2012 18:37:23 - reserving resource @aaaap
19/10/2012 18:37:25 - reserved resource @aaaap
19/10/2012 18:37:25 - granted resource MediaID=@aaaat;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=BCS_NBU011;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=ie-bcsnbupan011;MediaServer=ie-dubadm030
19/10/2012 18:37:25 - granted resource ie-dubadm030_BCS_NBU011
19/10/2012 18:37:26 - requesting resource @aaaap
19/10/2012 18:37:27 - Info Duplicate(pid=8064) Initiating optimized duplication from @aaaap to @aaaat
19/10/2012 18:37:27 - granted resource MediaID=@aaaap;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=SDK_NBU011;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=ie-dubnbupan011;MediaServer=ie-dubadm030
19/10/2012 18:37:32 - Info bpdm(pid=6332) started
19/10/2012 18:37:33 - started process bpdm (6332)
19/10/2012 18:37:47 - Info bpdm(pid=6332) requesting nbjm for media
19/10/2012 18:37:49 - Critical bpdm(pid=6332) sts_get_cred failed: error 3 emmerr 2000048
19/10/2012 18:37:51 - Critical bpdm(pid=6332) failure to open sts for storage server ie-dubnbupan011: plug-in reports error 2060001 one or more invalid arguments
19/10/2012 18:37:53 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) host ie-bcsadm034 backup id IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350666523 optimized duplication failed, media open error (83). (host specified here is media server 34 at the DR site - which is an alternate read server)
19/10/2012 18:37:56 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) Duplicate of backupid IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350666523 failed, media open error (83).
19/10/2012 18:37:56 - requesting resource @aaaap
19/10/2012 18:37:56 - granted resource MediaID=@aaaap;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=SDK_NBU011;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=ie-dubnbupan011;MediaServer=ie-dubadm030
19/10/2012 18:37:59 - Info bpdm(pid=6928) started
19/10/2012 18:38:01 - started process bpdm (6928)
19/10/2012 18:38:13 - Info bpdm(pid=6928) requesting nbjm for media
19/10/2012 18:38:15 - Critical bpdm(pid=6928) sts_get_cred failed: error 3 emmerr 2000048
19/10/2012 18:38:17 - Critical bpdm(pid=6928) failure to open sts for storage server ie-dubnbupan011: plug-in reports error 2060001 one or more invalid arguments
19/10/2012 18:38:19 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) host ie-bcsadm034 backup id IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350667186 optimized duplication failed, media open error (83). (host specified here is media server 34 at the DR site - which is an alternate read server)
19/10/2012 18:38:21 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) Duplicate of backupid IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350667186 failed, media open error (83).
19/10/2012 18:38:21 - requesting resource @aaaap
19/10/2012 18:38:22 - granted resource MediaID=@aaaap;DiskVolume=PureDiskVolume;DiskPool=SDK_NBU011;Path=PureDiskVolume;StorageServer=ie-dubnbupan011;MediaServer=ie-dubadm030
19/10/2012 18:38:25 - Info bpdm(pid=5708) started
19/10/2012 18:38:27 - started process bpdm (5708)
19/10/2012 18:38:40 - Info bpdm(pid=5708) requesting nbjm for media
19/10/2012 18:38:42 - Critical bpdm(pid=5708) sts_get_cred failed: error 3 emmerr 2000048
19/10/2012 18:38:44 - Critical bpdm(pid=5708) failure to open sts for storage server ie-dubnbupan011: plug-in reports error 2060001 one or more invalid arguments
19/10/2012 18:38:46 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) host ie-bcsadm034 backup id IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350667622 optimized duplication failed, media open error (83). (host specified here is media server 34 at the DR site - which is an alternate read server)
19/10/2012 18:38:48 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) Duplicate of backupid IE-DUBPRNPWV052_1350667622 failed, media open error (83).
19/10/2012 18:38:49 - Error bpduplicate(pid=8064) Status = no images were successfully processed.
19/10/2012 18:38:49 - end Duplicate; elapsed time: 00:01:29
media open error(83)=
I see many references to this error in the forums, but am unsure as to how to proceed. One items points to licensing - we have an overall site license (1 for NBU and 1 for De-Dup). Both are entered, with the de-dup license also being entered on each appliance.
The main issue appears to point to both storage units (appliances / disk pools) being available to a single media server. In my case I am running the backup and the diplication to storage units tied to the same media server - media server 30. I do notice in the output above that the host ie-bcsadm034 is being noted on the bpduplicate statement - this is the media server at the DR site and it is specified as an alternate read server for this SLP.
Is my issue the Alternate read server - do I need ay reference to this at all ?
I expect to have media server 30 doing accessing boththe source and target appliances for this duplication, so why is media server 34 getting involved ? Is it down to the alternate read server being specified ?
Any input appreciated.
AJ