Deduplication on a Master Server - MSDP or Puredisk
Hi!
Generelly speaking, is Puredisk the best/the only solution for deduplicaion on a Master Server, in a Netbackup 7.5.x environment? I have read here that MSDP is not recommended to run on a Master Server - only on dedicated Media servers.
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO61249
"- DO NOT configure MSDP on NetBackup (NBU) master servers, OpsCenter servers or servers that are the master and opscenter server. Performance suffers significantly, particularly during busy backup periods."
best regards
johan
PureDisk involves having a server somewhere else do the work - so yes it will be less taxing on your Master
The trouble is that PureDisk is shortly to go end of life so if you are looking to implement something now i would go for MSDP
It is obviously your choice but if you have a spare server i would load it up with RAM and setup MSDP on that