Set up and configure backup environment
I have to set up and configure a new backup environment.
Customer is asking for 7.5.0.4 but as there are some NBSL memory leakage issue and there are some vm machines to be backed up, shall I go for 7.5.0.4 or 7.1.0.4 as I found this more stable.
Also can you please provide all the necessary steps to configure the NetBackup enviroment from scratch starting from design to implementation.
There are around 80 Windows machines, some are running some high end applications and databases and 100 vm machines and also some Linux machines around 50 which need FT backup. There are 4 exchange servers 2010 to be backed up and also some SQL and Oracle DB servers.
Total there will be around 8TB data to be backed up and may increase another 2TB in future.
What will be master server configuration I need to design of how many CPUs and how much RAM and what kind of Network (Ethernet card and FC card) settings should I design and suggest ? Also how many and what type of drives(LTO-4 or LTO-5) should I require ? How I can calculate these things ?
Please suggest and advice.
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CPU and memory recommendations are documented in the white paper.
We cannot prescribe Ethernet or FC cards. If lots of backups will be done over the network, investigate feasibility of 10Gb network.
Choice of tape drives will be determined by cost, media capacity and ability of media servers to stream tape drives. LTO-6 is already out. So, weigh up LTO-5 vs LTO-6.
You may want to consider dedupe storage as first stage for backups. Have a look at NBU appliances - purpose built with lots of memory and CPU, choice of multiple 1 Gb or 100Gb NICs, choice of 2 or 6 FC cards.