HP OpenStorage (OST) Plug-in for Symantec Backup Exec (BE) on Windows (EJ002-90980, December 2012)

1 Introduction
This section provides an overview of the Symantec OpenStorage (OST) plug-in and the HP OST
v2.0 plug-in.
• “Overview” (page 4)
• “Terminologies” (page 4)
Overview
OST is a Symantec backup interface that allows intelligent storage devices, like the HP B6200
StoreOnce Backup System, to work with Symantec's Backup Exec (BE) software. OST provides BE
administrators with advanced capabilities, such as optimized duplication and Disaster Recovery
(DR) copy creation.
The HP OST v2.0 plug-in is installed on the BE media servers. It uses a StoreOnce Catalyst Client-side
library interface to interact with the HP B6200 StoreOnce Backup System.
Please refer to http://www.hp.com/go/b6000 for more details on the HP B6200 StoreOnce
Backup System.
Terminologies
Table 1 (page 4) describes commonly-used terms used throughout this guide.
Table 1 Terminologies
DescriptionTerminology
User data represented with header and content filesBackup Image
Symantec Backup ExecBE
Command Line InterfaceCLI
Systems that are to be protected through the use of the BE backup softwareClient
Management console interface of the HP B6200 StoreOnce Backup SystemCluster Manager
StoreOnce CatalystStoreDisk volume
Fully Qualified Domain NameFQDN
StoreOnce CatalystStoreLogical Storage Unit
(LSU)
A system with BE Central Administration Server Option (CASO) installedMaster server
A system with BE media server installed along with the OST plug-inMedia server
A low bandwidth copy operationOptimized Duplication
OpenStorageOST
HP B6200 StoreOnce Backup SystemOST storage server
Virtual InterfaceVIF
4 Introduction