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noazara
Level 6
12 years ago

deduplication

Hi ALL, we are working on using deduplication technology in our environment but want to have below things clear:Just the basic idea? Before NBU 7.x,How do we do deduplication? we use symantec ...
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  • PeteWall's avatar
    PeteWall
    12 years ago

    Since PureDisk and NetBackup are seperate products, they have separate version numbers.

    NetBackup 6.x can use PureDisk for deduplication.  This requires seperate servers for the NetBackup media server as well as the PureDisk servers.

    NetBackup 7.x can still use PureDisk for deduplication, using the same number of servers as the NetBackup 6.x example.  There is little difference bewteen the two, as the major differences in how the deudpilcation is performed would be on the version of PureDisk chosen.  The rest of the differences would be only on the NetBackup side.

    NetBackup 7.x can also use MSDP, which is a part of the NetBackup media server (no separate PureDisk product used), which only needs one server: the media server where MSDP will be configured.

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noazara
Level 6
12 years ago

4.When you create the MSDP storage server, you can specifiy the path where the MSDP storage will be created.  

For this I needs to have a pure disk server separately?

The storage for this needs to come from SAN?

.2. After NetBackup 7.0, you now have the option of using either PureDisk or MSDP.  There are many reasons why you would choose one over the other, so picking PureDisk or MSDP depends more on your use cases, rather than on a technological answer.

This Pure disk after 7.0  is similar what was prior to Netbackup 7.0?