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BE and dual processors

Brian_Nordmann
Level 3
I have been tasked with upgrading the hardware our BE10.1 server is running on.

I have been trying to look for this and was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction...

Does Backup Exec make use of dual processors? Just wondering if it would be a waste to run this on a dual processor DL380 server.

Any info along these lines would be great! Thanks in advance!
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Amruta_Bhide
Level 6
Hello,

BEWS will not use dual processors on its own.
But if the OS is configured to use dual processors in some way for its applications, Backupexec will surely make use of it.
So basically it depends on how your OS is setup.
Hope this helps you.

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Thanks.

Ken_Putnam
Level 6
BackupExec itself is not multi-threaded as far as the OS is concerned, so different backup jobs will not use different processors

But if you do other things on the media server, two processors will mean that BackupExec can use one, and everything else the other, so you may see some improvement in performance.

Renuka_-
Level 6
Hello Brian,
Please update us on the issue, is the question answered.
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