N5220 appliance - OST

[Itegral]

Guys,

What is the benefit of installing OST on NetBackup 52xx appliance?

Thanks

[Nicolai]

Can you elaborate ?

OST is a plugin to Netbackup, there are plugins from various vendors like EMC,Sepaton and Quantum that  let Netbackup utilize control the vendors hardware to Netbackup full knowledge (like replicating). 

If's a traditional Netbackup installation or  a appliance box does not make much of a difference. You can still enjoy the full power of OST is needed. 

[Itegral]

thanks for your response.

So with NetBackup appliance (with one/two storage shelves attached) we still can add 3rd party Open Storage devices i.e. DataDomain etc.??

[Nicolai]

Yes for the 5200 series - not for the 5000 series (PDDO appliances).

[Itegral]

Thanks - last but not least;

If I have two NetBackup 5000 appliances in 2 different DCs replicating to each other using NBU SLP; can I change the replication target on the media servers to a 3rd party appliance (i.e. Dell DR4000 deduplication)?

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

I realize that this discussion is quite old...

I don't believe that MSDP or PDDO images can be replicated/duplicated to 3rd Party Appliances.

The only supported config that I can find is MSDP to PDDO.