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Chapter 58 Configuring NASB About NASB Send documentation comments to [email protected] Step 6 Select the port range you want to provision for using this service (starting port and ending port). Note The port range must be a multiple of four (for example fc4/1 through fc4-12). Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Select the Feature you want to enable on these ports from the drop-down list of services. Set the PartnerImageURI field if you are enabling a third-party application that requires an image loaded onto the SSM. Click Create to create this row and enable service. Disabling Intelligent Storage Services To disable Intelligent Storage Services in Fabric Manager for an SSM and free up a group of ports that used these services, follow these steps: Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Expand Switches, expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane. You see the Intelligent Storage Services configuration in the Information pane. Click the SSM tab. You see the set of configured services in the Information pane (see Figure 58-1). Select the configured service in the table that you want to disable. Check the Reboot Module on Delete check box if you want to force the card to reboot after disabling the service. This is equivalent to the CLI force option. Click Delete Row. The ports that were provisioned for this service become available for provisioning in another service. Note If the Reboot Card on Delete checkbox was checked, then the SSM module reboots. About NASB Data movement in the fabric uses considerable processor cycles, which can cause client applications to slow down noticeably. Offloading data movement operations to a media server allows the client applications to run normally even during a backup operation. Media servers can further offload the data movement operation to NASB devices, which allows the media server to focus on the coordination functions needed to complete the backup. Most backups performed today are server-free. In server-free backups, the application server is not involved in moving the data. The data can be moved by either a media server or a NASB device. When the media server is the data mover, it moves the data between the disks and the tapes. The backup application runs on both the client device and the media server. However, the backup application in the client device performs minimal tasks for the backup operation. The media server performs the following backup operations: OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide 58-3