Preface

About this guide

This guide describes how to install SnapManager® 2.1 for Microsoft® SQL Server^TM software and how to migrate, back up, and restore SQL Server databases using SnapManager.

This guide does not explain how to install, configure, and use the SnapDrive® features that enable you to create and connect to LUNs, which you must do before you use SnapManager. For this information and details about how to configure storage system volumes and enable storage system access, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide for the version of SnapDrive that you are running.

This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and other network topology.

Audience

This guide is for system and database administrators who possess a working knowledge of SQL Server 2000 or 2005 and Windows® 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003. The discussion assumes familiarity with the following topics:

SQL Server 2000 or 2005 administration
Network functions and operations
Basic concepts for moving data over a network
Your operating system, network, and storage system
FCP and iSCSI LUN access protocols

Is this the right guide for you?

Use the following table to determine which documents to read.

If you are...	Then read...
Installing storage systems in an Ethernet environment	The Data ONTAP® product documentation, which is delivered with the storage system.
Installing storage systems in a Fibre Channel environment	The document Block Access Management Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.
Installing SnapManager on a Windows host that is connected to a storage system and you plan to use iSCSI as the protocol for your LUN	This document. If SnapDrive is not already installed, first read the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide for your version of SnapDrive.
Using the SnapMirror® feature in conjunction with SnapManager	This document. The Data ONTAP Data Protection Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the `arp -d` hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic type

Words or characters that require special attention.

Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the arp -d hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host.

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command and daemon names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that appear in the following circumstances:

Note
A note provides important information to help you install or operate your system efficiently.

Attention
An attention contains instructions that keep you from crashing your system or losing data.