03-22-2016 08:37 PM
Hi,
Is there a limit of nbu clients/policies for media server? Can a single media server accommodate large number of clients to backup?
Thanks.
NBU 7.7 running on RHEL 6.5
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03-22-2016 09:53 PM
it is all depends on the Sizing of the media server and like Memory, network, hardware etc..
please go through below technote to understand the desing requiremetns.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000076282
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000076300
03-23-2016 12:20 AM
03-23-2016 11:27 AM
It really depends on your architecture - what type network do you have? 1GB LAN? 10GB LAN? Fiber Channel connections? How many clients? How fast can they send data? Storage?
What kind of window are you targeting? Backing up once a week or every day? Physical systems or VM?
I know I got tired of several slower servers causing things to get bogged down, and went to an intermediate disk/VTL solution. I now can have as many backup jobs running as I can handle, and if I have a couple that write slowly, they do not prevent others from completing. then I duplicate from there to tape, the added advantage of increased throughput to tape allowed me to upgrade to faster tape drives.
I have 920 clients and 4 non-dedicated media servers, only 1 for VM, and 3 for LAN based backups. Any Oracle DB larger than 2TB has a dedicated media server connected via FC, but all data is written to tape via just two media servers.
03-22-2016 09:53 PM
it is all depends on the Sizing of the media server and like Memory, network, hardware etc..
please go through below technote to understand the desing requiremetns.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000076282
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000076300
03-23-2016 12:20 AM
03-23-2016 11:27 AM
It really depends on your architecture - what type network do you have? 1GB LAN? 10GB LAN? Fiber Channel connections? How many clients? How fast can they send data? Storage?
What kind of window are you targeting? Backing up once a week or every day? Physical systems or VM?
I know I got tired of several slower servers causing things to get bogged down, and went to an intermediate disk/VTL solution. I now can have as many backup jobs running as I can handle, and if I have a couple that write slowly, they do not prevent others from completing. then I duplicate from there to tape, the added advantage of increased throughput to tape allowed me to upgrade to faster tape drives.
I have 920 clients and 4 non-dedicated media servers, only 1 for VM, and 3 for LAN based backups. Any Oracle DB larger than 2TB has a dedicated media server connected via FC, but all data is written to tape via just two media servers.