04-11-2017 02:58 AM
Hi all
We have a question from the SFHA guy, how NetBackup could benefit from the diskcaching (or maybe not)? He is referring to config of SmartIO.
I would think the volumes should be set to NO Cache? I have little experience with this, and cannot find anything in admin guide for master in HA environments either.
It is a 2 node cluster, master only.
04-11-2017 03:18 AM
Your NetBackup catalog (db and files) could potentially benefit from an increase in performance with SmartIO. The szie of the improvement would depend on the size your NetBackup installation. I don't think its worth if its not a very large environment.
04-11-2017 03:41 AM
Thanks.
This is a large environment, with lots of mediaservers and a imagedb of 1.8 TB. Approximately 16000 jobs pr day.
Would it be the EMM db or the image database or both, that would benefit? And in case, which type of cache?
04-11-2017 03:54 AM - edited 04-11-2017 06:14 AM
I have discussed this issue with the SFHA guy, and we think we will enable read/write cache for NetBackup volume configured in SFHA.
This might, or might not increase performance, but it should be possible to review the cache hits.
What do you think?
04-13-2017 10:20 AM
Sounds great. If you get good information make a seperate blog post about it. We don't always get to "play" with something like this so nice to share experience with others.