10-11-2011 05:33 PM
10-11-2011 05:43 PM
These two are links for dedup best practices:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO21767
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO59043
10-11-2011 06:21 PM
10-11-2011 06:33 PM
No, only one Dedupe folder per BE server.
And it's SAN not SANS ;p Sounds like you bought an Equallogic? Not many oflks advertise a RAID50 cocnfig... If you did do Equallogic, you need to leverage either 10Gbe, or multiple 1Gb links with MPIO enabled to get any real performance out of those SAN arrays.
10-11-2011 07:11 PM
10-11-2011 10:51 PM
As said before you can only create one dedup folder, so you will have to move the folder to the new storage.
The procedure is outlined here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH160832
10-19-2011 06:32 PM
Equallogic has some of the best documentation from a storage vendor in the business. Look up their MPIO documentation for a howto on it.
In a nutshell, you're able to leverage all of the links in a round-robin fashion (recommended). This way eacch connection that is opened from client to storage, a new NIC session is established. It's not doubling bandwidth, but it better distributes the load across all the links in an MPIO trunk.
In the BackupExec world, the more concurrent backup jobs you have running, the better it can leverage the links and distribute the backups from backup server to EQL storage.