Preparing to install SnapManager

Verify your system requirements.

For details, see Verifying system requirements.

Back up system resources.

For details, see Backing up system resources.

Assess your volume space requirements.

For details about how to evaluate your space requirements, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive.

Configure your filer.

For details, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive.

Configure your Windows 2000 system.

For details, see the Microsoft documentation.

You must have SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1 installed on the system. If you are currently running a version of SnapDrive prior to SnapDrive 2.0 you must remove (uninstall) the software before installing SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1:

For details about removing SnapDrive, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for the version of SnapDrive you are installing.

Install SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1.

SnapDrive is installed before SnapManager.

Caution
Do not begin the SnapManager installation process unless you installed SnapDrive and already created two or more dedicated virtual disks to hold the Domino Data directory, transaction log files, and SnapInfo directory. The SnapInfo directory and the transaction log files can be housed on the same virtual disk.

Note
For remote administration using SnapManager, you do not need to install SnapDrive on the remote machine. See SnapManager remote administration for details.

For details, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive.