Netbackup for vmware planning

[sym_biosis]

We are planning Netbackup for VMware for our windows vm farms.

Where do I get information for detailed planning ?

1. Backup Host - Resource requirements (CPU Memory etc)

2. Load on each backup host - One backup host can backup how many vms.

3. License requirements (Does capacity license covers this ?)

[RiaanBadenhorst · Accepted solution]

You can refer to the planning and performance tuning guide which will give you general guidelines for a media server. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.doc7449.html

Platform / capacity (TB) license has all the features you need.

[sdo · Accepted solution]

1) Planning guide:

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.doc7449.html

...and NetBackup Support for virtual infrastructure:

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.tech127089.html

2) This is utterly dependent upon many factors external to NetBackup software itself.  If you can give some indication of scale and complexity and existing and new H/W and S/W versions to be deployed - then we may be able to comment further.  All I can say right now is that the core of NetBackup (i.e. the data movement between data producer and data consumer) is extremely efficient and thus... any performance issues are usually down to poorly configured, poorly planned, poorly implemented, or poorly performing hardware.

3) Yes, capacity based licensing (as long as it is not purely DPOO) will cover all use of all features.

[revarooo · Accepted solution]

How many VM's do you expect to backup in the future?

You should only ever backup around 4 VM's at a time on each ESX server / Datastore at any one time anyway

(to avoid I/O saturation) so these are all considerations to keep in mind when planning.

Will your backup host be purely a VM Backup hosts or a media server for none-VMware backups too?

[sdo]

@sym_biois - this similar question may also help steer your thinking / planning in the right direction:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/need-information-implemention-vadp-based-backups-nbu-7601