Hardware for new media server

[kproehl]

We are in the process of building out a new netbackup environment in a new datacenter.  We know now there will be 3 machines with about 4 TB of data for a full for all 3 machines total.   Right now these backups will go directly to disk.  I would like to achive throughput of 50 m/s or greater.

The machine will be running windows server 2008.

What should i consider as far as how much memory and cpu capicity for the machine?

 

[bak]

A server with two multi-core processors and 16GB of RAM should be more than sufficient for these purposes.

You state that you have 3 clients with 4TB of data combined.  Those are pretty big clients and assuming you are going to have a master/media backing these up over the network that is going to be your biggest consideration.  Go for a dedicated Backup network completely separate from all other traffic.  Your master/media & clients will backup over the backup network.  Ideally you would have two one gigabit connections bonded together on the master/media server for the backup network connection.

[Nicolai]

Take a look in NetBackup 6.5 Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide. It got on page 43 a section called "Design you'r media server"