Netbackup Deduplication with Storage Unit Groups

[dwilson1987]

Hi guys,

just wondering if anyone has tried 2 media servers on 1 site running NBU MSDO and creating a Storage unit group. Would this need to transfer all data again as they use seperate databases???

I ask this as I am unable to add anymore disks from the san to the server. (Windows Server 2008 R2, has 8 spanned 2TB drives on the server and will not allow me to add anymore)

Rgds

Daniel

[RiaanBadenhorst]

You're correct, as the two Dedupe engines aren't aware of each other you'll have cases where you'll have a FULL on each NBU dedupe server.

Only thing I can see is to split your clients between the two?

[teiva-boy · Accepted solution]

Deploy Puredisk, and both media servers can write to the pool and share amongst the global dedupe available with PureDisk now deployed.  This is using PDDO.

Granted, you need a 3rd box now, and storage on it.  But you already own the licensing for PureDisk if you have the NBU dedupe licenses.

[dwilson1987]

thank you for your opinons I will investigate the puredisk solution.

Rgds

Dan

[dwilson1987]

Is it possbile to manage puredisk using the Netbackup 7 console.

Or does it need its own management console.

Also is it possbile to have MSDO pools duplicate data from NBU media servers to Puredisk?

[VirtualED]

PureDisk has it's own Web UI.  It cannot be managed by the NetBackup console yet.

You can duplication from MSDO to PureDisk, but not PureDisk to MSDO.