One thing to keep in mind with the major difference between a NetBackup appliance and a dedupe storage appliance (Data Domain, DXi, Exagrid, etc.): a NetBackup appliance is a media server that can do dedupe storage but the other appliances require a media server in front of it.
When all is said and done, a NBU appliance and a dedupe appliance end up working about the same. I usually tell customers that the main difference between them boil down to the following: * The requirement of a separate media server for a dedupe appliance as noted above. * Through the OST feature set, almost all dedupe appliances support the same capabilities as a NetBackup appliance. The only missing feature from a dedupe appliance is client-side dedupe. And I suspect that Veritas will keep that one in their back pocket always. * Dedupe appliances can generally scale better than the NBU appliances. A NBU5230 will go to 148 TB and a NBU5330 will scale to 229 TB (but in 114 TB increments) which negates this statement some but the granularity of scaling is better for the other appliances. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
