requirements for a media server that uses Netbackup de-duplication

[JJ58]

hello forum
nbu 7

i'm would like to get some information about the requirements for a media server that uses Netbackup de-duplication ,
1-configuration (any doc please or steps )
2-CPU RAM...

Regards

[kunal]

Hi,

Take a look at these guides:

NetBackup Deduplication: Additional Usage Information, version "D" (updated July 14, 2010)
ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/338123.pdf


Symantec NetBackup (tm) 7.0 Deduplication Guide
http://support.veritas.com/docs/340113

hope this helps.

[Deepak_W · Accepted solution]

In a nutshell --

You need to have x64 hardware as well as OS on media server in order to enable media server deduplication.

Also local disk / SAN LUN required to store dedupe data as well as DB.


hope this helps...

[Ed_Wilts]

From the notes that I took at a Symantec presentation:

CPU > 2.2 Ghz
min 4 cores - prefer 8 cores
min 4 GB RAM
- need roughly 1 GB RAM per 1 TB back-end. 
  - e.g. with 8TB pool, you should get at least 8 GB RAM

In general, for media servers, you need a server capable of high I/O but the de-dupe adds the high CPU requirement.  Consider PCI express a must.  More RAM is always good. Masters servers are the reverse - they require more CPU than I/O.

Something along the lines of an HP DL585 G5 or a Sun T5240 is good.  For de-dupe media servers, an Intel architecture is preferable to the T5000 series.