A month or so ago we were actually trying to do CIFS on a Windows Media server
using basic disk from dedupe but never got it really going. Ultimately we gave
up on the CIFS setup and converted the media server to Linux. At the time
most of the suggestions I saw didn't really work for us. I
Using a 'basic disk' on a dedupe appliance would be fairly simple and limit the
licences required. However check the small print, NetBackup used to require a
higher type of licence to store data on a deduplicating appliance, even if you
were not using AdvancedDisk or other fancy functionality.
We are currently running 10 GbE from our Linux backup servers to the dedupe
appliances. The dedupe appliance vendor does charge a significant price for
their OST compatible license/plugin. It is a one-time license that can be used
with multiple media servers or even multiple NetBackup domains. B
We never got OST license here but use Deduplication.We do it using 10 GB
Ethernet NFS mounts from the Dedupe appliances on each of our master and media
servers.It may not be cheaper in the long run to buy a 10 GB switch and 10
GB HBAs for every server (although some now come with embedde
