What about NetBackup PureDisk? It seems to do everything that avamar
does, plus.....
Avamar will be separate from your netbackup environment and your
netbackup server won't write to avamar, like it does the datadomain
boxes. However, puredisk can be used as a backup server or a backup
destination (ie storage pool)....it will dedup, plus it will replicate
that deduped data to a remote site.
My research has been such that I can't find a reason to not look at
puredisk, especially over avamar.
Scott Chapman
Senior Technical Specialist
Storage and Database Administration
ICBC - Victoria
Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295
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From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Cornely,
David
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:35 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using avamar
Yes, and it works great. The key (as with most IT things) is to
understand how it works and to use it appropriately within the correct
environment(s).
Since it de-duplicates client data before it leaves the client,
it works especially well for virtual hosts that are likely sharing
network resources. The scaling path for the solution is very clear,
simply add more nodes to your grid when needed.
Getting data offsite is also easy - you implement a remote grid
and use IP-based replication.
I recommend to start you get EMC to provide a detailed
presentation on the product so you can get a deeper understanding of the
product. If you use it in accordance with its design it will work as
expected.
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Klebba,
Don
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 06:31
To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using avamar
We're a netbackup shop running NBU 6.5.2a. We currently have
some data domain appliances that we backup roughly
25% of our nightly backups to. We're looking to go tapeless at
some point in time and were considering getting larger
Data domain appliances to accomplish this. We're also a EMC
shop. Our EMC BURA guys have been pushing their Avamar
Solution to us. I must admit it sounds promising, but I'm a
little skeptical at this solution.
Has anyone had any experiences, either good or
bad with Avamar?
Don Klebba
Quicken Loans
Storage Management Team
donkle...@quickenloans.com
phone: (734)805-7791
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