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For a disaster Recovery project we have been asked to install DataStage on to a SAN drive.

A team member tried - and the result is that the Datastage installation software will not allow installion of the server software to a network drive (i.e. it will only accept a local drive.)

Is there anyway around this - Has anyone managed to do this - if so what different steps are required during the installation

Thanking you all in advance

It works for us. Not sure why.

DataStage is documented as not being able to be installed on a symbolic link. It must therefore depend on the relationship between the DataStage server machine and the SAN; how SAN-disk "file systems" are mounted on the UNIX machine. It may prove completely impossible. This still does not preclude accessing data on SAN disks, which may be to what Kim was referring.

ecclesr wrote:For a disaster Recovery project we have been asked to install DataStage on to a SAN drive.

A team member tried - and the result is that the Datastage installation software will not allow installion of the server software to a network drive (i.e. it will only accept a local drive.)

Is there anyway around this - Has anyone managed to do this - if so what different steps are required during the installation

Thanking you all in advance

This sounds like a NAS not a SAN. There is a big difference.

I will speak to the required Disaster recovery team tomorrow - The lastest I have heard we may have a NAS/SAN combination if that is possbile.

I will post tomorrow

Kim can you please expand of your implementation steps

Thanking you all in advance

I think Ray is correct. The SAN mounts as a local drive to our Windows servers. So it is not an issue.The drive is owned by one server and other servers which access this area of the SAN are read only or accessing it through the server which owns it.