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rahulabcd
Level 3
6 years ago

Cloud Catalyst support

Hi All, We want to create a Cloud Catalyst Server and would like to know if we go for Linux RHEL Server for the same, can we build this in Azure Cloud? As in technotes and docuements, it is mentione...
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  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    6 years ago

    Hi,

    As far as I understand the use case is usually to have the CC onsite, and it would store the deduplicated segments which is a simple put operation. What you're describing there would be a lot more back and forth communications as the onsite appliance and the CC in the cloud would need to communicate a lot more as it exchanges the data.

    The transfer between the two should be deduplicated but I just think that there would be a greater requirement or dependency on the bandwidht / latency etc if you configure it this way. Maybe someone from Veritas can comment.

    In addition to that, the HW requirement is quite large so it might have a big cost impact in the cloud?

RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
RiaanBadenhorst
Level 6
6 years ago
Can you please explain why you want to create in the cloud as this sort of defeats the purpose but I’m interested to know what the overall architecture is.
  • rahulabcd's avatar
    rahulabcd
    Level 3
    6 years ago

    Hi Riaan,

    We want to build the Cloud Catalyst in Cloud itslef to reduce the DC footprint. Our ultimate goal is to send the deduplicated data to cloud using Cloud Catalyst. Can you please confirm, how this will defeat the purpose, if we build the Cloud Catalyst in Cloud itself, as the job is to send the deduplicated data to cloud storage. I understand the data would travel over available bandwidth to cloud catalyst, which will be hosted in cloud, but the cloud storage usage will be much less due to deduplication.

    I have gone through multiple technotes and blogs, but haven't come acroos any of the article suggesting Cloud Catalyst can or can't be build in cloud.

    • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
      RiaanBadenhorst
      Level 6
      6 years ago

      Hi,

      As far as I understand the use case is usually to have the CC onsite, and it would store the deduplicated segments which is a simple put operation. What you're describing there would be a lot more back and forth communications as the onsite appliance and the CC in the cloud would need to communicate a lot more as it exchanges the data.

      The transfer between the two should be deduplicated but I just think that there would be a greater requirement or dependency on the bandwidht / latency etc if you configure it this way. Maybe someone from Veritas can comment.

      In addition to that, the HW requirement is quite large so it might have a big cost impact in the cloud?

    • J_Huggins's avatar
      J_Huggins
      Level 6
      6 years ago

      If your ultimate plan is to send your deduplicated data to cloud, why don't you subsrcibe to any cloud partners then create a vm there, install Netbackup Master Server then configured MSDP?

      Not totally sure if you already take a look on this but I just want to give some suggestion.