[Veritas-bu] CPU/RAM minium requirements for 10 Gbit on Windows 2008 R2 ?

Fast PCI bus's, you'll want multiple channels of it for other IO that must pass through the system CPU should at minimum be quadcore or better. If you need to use multiple CPU's, so be it, but buying more cores will help you alleviate the various tiering prices when you go with the Enterprise

[Veritas-bu] Ops Center

One thing to note, is that OpsCenter runs about 1000% percent better on Windows than on Solaris. A product manager ran a report from his laptop faster than a brand new Sun server running solaris. +-- |This was sent by

[Veritas-bu] SAN Options???

I think VNX was meant, and not CNX. VNX is just the replacement to the CX lineup. RMAN is your best option, you would not backup from the NFS mount, you would backup to where ever RMAN is configured to spit out the backup files.

[Veritas-bu] Data Domain Question

I've got a customer with 30TB of SQL data, and a 30% daily change rate. He at best gets a 4.5:1 reduction But I've also got another with a 4% daily change rate, that gets closer to 20:1. It just depends... Though I don't agree with the above post that dedupe appliances cant dedupe SQL well.

[Veritas-bu] OpsCenter experiences and alternatives

Ops center is terrible. I could not sell that thing if you gave it away. All it took was one POC to show how bad it was. EMC's DPA is not too shabby and it can report on more than just backup software which is a nice feature. Aptare also is a great full featured product that reports on

[Veritas-bu] Using NetBackup for Desktops/Laptops backup

DLO is painful. Plain and simple. It's also a technology that Symantec hasn't updated in YEARS, other than improving on client compatibility. I'd look elsewhere than DLO for backup. I also would not suggest BESR from Symantec either, as they'll want you to deploy a FULL Altiris install to

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

You can also look into capacity licensing too. This way, you ignore all the client agents and App DB packs and tiers, etc... While capacity licensing is not cheap, the more you virtualize, the more you move into multi-socket boxes, the choice makes sense. As an example a quad-CPU box and a

[Veritas-bu] VM File Level Backups and not Full VMDK with file level rest

Daniel, I'm still unsure what you are talking about. There is Image level backup (VMDK) There is Guest level backup (Traditional agent in guest) You keep referring to file level backup? VCB is dead. Let's make that point clear. vStorage is the replacement (for most backup vendors). With

[Veritas-bu] VM File Level Backups and not Full VMDK with file level rest

What do you mean File level backups? There is either image level (entire VMDK) or guest level (agent within guest) Which NBU can do both, among many other backup vendors. VCB is so last year. the new vStorage API's can use Change Block tracking (CBT) so you dont have to send the entire VMDK

[Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

Symantec changed the licensing where if you had 10 Windows guests and 10 Linux guests, you USED to need two Enterprise Client licenses. This was a 6.5 limitation. In NBU 7, no longer. Way to go, finally something right in licensing. It's an Enterprise Client per PHYSICAL host, regardless of

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

I'm pretty sure George's UCS setup was using SAN and not NBD. +-- |This was sent by mnab...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup for vSphere 4

I've never run into an environment that used NBDSSL. However, NBD and SAN based VMware backups using VCB or vStorage are quite common. NBD is typically used when you are not using shared storage, and all backup traffic is over the LAN, usually over the console port of the VMware host. It's

[Veritas-bu] Netbackup+Windows2008

Just stick a standard client on it. Since you are running iSCSI, much of the Enterprise functionality probably will not be supported until Symantec get's off their lazy butt's to support iSCSI better. To them, it's not an enterprise, solution. A bunch of old fart's from the Veritas days me

[Veritas-bu] Celerra backups

Fastest would be to add the VTL option to your DD box. So you can dump write to the DD directly. This will require a FC add-in card Easiest in your current config would be to NDMP to disk, though the data has to pass through the media server first. This could be a bottleneck. Though the new

[Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

PureDisk is def cheaper up front. However, dedupe rates and ingest performance are no where near what a DD box can do. Factor in also, if you did you Older, servers, what is the 3,4, and 5 yr maintenance costs on that, for those servers? Not to mention the storage. IMO, while a higher up

[Veritas-bu] VTL Recommendations

As others mentioned, just step away from VTL's in general. All they are, are disk as the base, with software on top, emulating tape, with a big markup for that software. Just buy plain disk, or re-use disk you may already have, and backup to disk. Add in deduplication that is native now in

[Veritas-bu] Recommended FC array for D2D2T process

Ed, a JBOD is typically a bunch of disks. Typically in a DAS attached to a SCSI controller. Of course the SCSI controller can also have RAID functionality. The NexSAN and Promise arrays I mentioned also get grouped into the JBOD category, but by definition differ a bit in that the RAID

[Veritas-bu] Recommended FC array for D2D2T process

I've run into a lot of folks using either Promise FC arrays or NexSAN arrays. They are lowend boxes with RAID cards, that do nothing more than act like a JBOD. Most folks use these for D2D targets or archiving destinations. There are a ton of options out there, pick your technical

[Veritas-bu] Dell EqualLogic and Netbackup 6.5.

Dell makes the whitepaper, specifically about off-host backup. I think what is needed to do it is an Enterprise Server, and an Enterprise Client per host that you want to do a snapshot based backup. +-- |This was sent by

[Veritas-bu] Nirvanix

This is BETA. It's been BETA for less than a month at that, and actual use in production may only be in the single digit use at the moment. You may have better luck posting in the Symantec public forums. +-- |This was sent by

[Veritas-bu] ndmp datadomain OST

You can do an NDMP backup to disk with NBU. Your disk could be a DataDomain target, in which they do claim to be able to dedupe the NDMP data stream. +-- |This was sent by mnab...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to

[Veritas-bu] isilon backup accelerator

I've run into a customer or two that has. It works, to say the least. However a better way, and cheaper way would be to just do a synthetic backup (ideally with dedupe) of the CIFS/NFS shares themselves. You dont have to buy the expensive accelerator head, you eliminate NDMP licenses, and

[Veritas-bu] FalconStor/NetApp w/OST

There is no OST functionality with NetApp. NetApp wants you to buy more storage, and snap everything, to their storage. There is no need for backup to them. As for Falconstor, I've yet to see any customer with it. And I see a lot of customers a week across many states. The customers

[Veritas-bu] Puredisk experiences ?

PureDisk is licensed per host and per front end TB. If you are a Netbackup customer already, your standard clients in NBU, are the same for PureDisk. No extra cost! If you have to buy more licenses for PureDisk, you can interchangeably use them in NBU. Of course not everything is a good

[Veritas-bu] how to increase netbackup performance

Download the NBU tuning guide and start there. It's in the support section for NBU. +-- |This was sent by mnab...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.