MSDP volume group requirements
The requirements for an MVG server:
An MVG server can run on any NetBackup media server on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.
It can be a Flex media server container, a BYO media server, or a primary server.
It is recommended that you run an MVG server on a Flex multi-node appliance or along with the NetBackup primary server.
See About MVG resilience.
It is not an MSDP container like that on Flex WORM, Access Appliance, NetBackup Flex Scale, or Cloud Scale.
An MVG server and MSDP server cannot exist on the same media server as an MVG server is a lightweight MSDP server.
As the MVG server is new, it cannot be upgraded or migrated from a regular MSDP server.
By default, one MVG server can have up to 64 MVG volumes, and each MVG volume can have up to 8 disk volumes.
The disk volumes PureDiskVolume or cloud volumes cannot be configured on an MVG server.
The MVG server requires hundreds of gigabytes of disk storage in a large environment.
One NetBackup domain can have multiple MVG servers.
The requirements for the disk volumes of an MVG volume:
The MSDP servers of the disk volumes must run with NetBackup 10.5 or later.
The MVG server can use its default credentials to access the MSDP servers of the disk volumes.
The disk volumes must be all PureDiskVolumes or all cloud volumes.
The disk volumes must come from different MSDP servers.
The disk volumes must have the same KMS, encryption, and WORM settings.
If they are cloud volumes, they should be configured with comparative storage classes or tiers.
The WORM MVG volumes must have overlapping ranges for retention locks. Within the WORM MVG volume, the shortest maximum lock duration for any WORM volume must be greater than the longest minimum lock duration for any WORM volume.
A disk volume cannot be assigned to multiple MVG volumes.