Thanks for that info. Just to clarify though. If your master is also a media server (as it usually is) you don't have to have a separate media server to talk to the non-NBU appliances.
In our environment we have the master/media and multiple other media servers that all use storage units defined using NFS mounts to the various appliances we've used (DD, DXi and ExaGrid). That is to say we can access each appliance from all media servers rather than requiring a separate media server for each. We don't use OST here because of the additional NBU license required so it may be different in an OST setup. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tsimerson Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP Data Protector vs Veritas Net Backup 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 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
