add media agent to existing gridstor AWS

@Bloopa , quick question to get started.

Can these Test environment media agents see your prod CommCell?  Do you need to multi instance them to connect them to the prod Commserve first?

Hello Mike,

Yes, they can see the commserve and they are already connected and I can backup each AWS account through these test media agent (they host their own DDB)

I am not using multi instance.

@Mike Struening Up please :) Thanks !

Hi @Bloopa !  Apologies for the delay, I was on holiday from Dec 10th (and got back today).

Looking at what you have mapped out here, I would expect some delay in this scenario.\

To confirm, you’d be creating a Gridstor pool of Media Agents that exist in different AWS accounts?  What’s the latency between these?  that’s likely the best place to start to see what your baseline will look like,

Hello @Mike Struening no problem thank you.

Yes, I have created a gridstor with 2 media Agents that are located on for example VPC MASTER.

I want to add 2 media Agents to this Gridstor but those Media Agents are located on another VPC let say VPC2.

these 4 Media agents can see the Commserve.

for the latency, you mean latency between the 2 VPC’s ? I am not a network specialist but i think that in the actual aws configuration if VPC MASTER need to communicate with VPC2 it must go through firewall but I will clarify that.

That would really be my only concern.  Forget cloud for a second and just think ‘I have 2 other Media Agents I want to add to a gridstor configuration’.  As long as any clients that would use them will see solid performance, you should be fine, though I’ll also ask some of our folks here just in case.

edit: spoke to the Media Management support leadership who had the same thoughts I shared above.  As long as the connection throughput is fine, you should be fine as well!

Glad to hear it.  Keep me posted!!