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NBU 5220 Performance
We recently deployed a 5220 appliance into our environment as it was to be the savior in our battle against a backup window we were no longer able to meet. When we finally got it online and into our NBU environment the initial performance was great. The area we were to most benefit was with VMware backups. The data stores mounted directly to the appliance would allow direct access to the snapshots for a fast and efficient backup. Before this, we were performing client side backups so the impact on the hosts every night was significant as we tried backing up 600+ vms. The plan was to be able to move all Dev and test off-host backups to the middle of the day as the performance impact was minimal and the end result was an increased window to complete things. As we started with noon-time backups deduplication rates were high and so were the speeds. However, this performance gain was short lived, as we began increasing the load we suddenly saw performance drop to a point of concern. Backups were no longer speedy, 3500KB per second to 10,000KB. There are some that might pop to 24,000KB, but in a sample size of 15 as I write this, only one is showing 24,000. Now, I do have a few ideas. 1. We have a 72TB appliance, therefore, 2 disk trays, during the backups, the one disk tray is going crazy, all the lights are flashing and you can really see that it is working. However, the second tray is doing nothing. While you might see a blink here or there, it is almost nothing compared to the other disk tray. Is this to be expected? When we looked at the disk configuration, it shows concat, is this normal? 2. Too much data at once and we are simply burying the appliance. In reality, what sort of performance should I be able to expect from the appliance? 3. Relating to number 2, since we only have the one appliance right now while we wait to get the remote appliance in place, we are duping off to tape. This is running at the same time as a backup, so this means at the same time the appliance is writing a lot of data, it is also reading it back to tape. 4. We are overloading the data store so that read speed is bad from source to destination. We have fewer hosts,therefore, if we limit the jobs per host we limit the number of machines backing up at once (obviously). This means that backups take way long, so we removed the limit per host and just set a limit per data store. As we are new to it all, I am not sure what impact where, but again, I am trying to list any and all ideas from the start. 5. The appliance does not support multi-pathing, therefore, we only have a single path to the disk. Beyond that I am not sure, but this is something that doesnt help with the showcasing of the appliances to management at the moment. However, given the initial performance I am confident we can get back there.
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smakovits
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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NetBackup Appliances 2.6.1.2 is now available!
(crossposted from the Netting Out NetBackup blog) I’m extremely happy to announce that NetBackup Appliances 2.6.1.2 is now Generally Available! NetBackup Appliances 2.6.1.2 is the latest update for NetBackup 52xx and 5330 Applainces and the equivalent Appliance patch release to NetBackup 7.6.1.2. It can be applied in an upgrade to Appliances running ANY 2.5.x or 2.6.x.x version. This release includes all fixes included in the NetBackup 7.6.1.2 release, including resolutions for most commonly downloaded EEBs, customer escalations, and critical internally found defects. To download 2.6.1.2, please visit the following page: NetBackup Appliance 2.6.1.2 Release http://symantec.com/docs/TECH228624 More information on 2.6.1.2 can be found at the following locations: NetBackup Appliances 2.6.1.2 Release Notes http://symantec.com/docs/DOC8185 Complete Symantec NetBackup Appliance Documentation Set - 2.6.1.2 versions http://symantec.com/docs/DOC8194 The NetBackup Appliances Late Breaking News can be found here: NetBackup 5xxx appliance series Late Breaking News http://symantec.com/docs/TECH145136 Short link: http://bit.ly/APPLBN Bookmark the NetBackup Appliances Common Topics page to have these and many more useful links handy: http://go.symantec.com/nba bit.ly/761LBN | APPLBN | 76LBN
CRZ
10 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Deduplication Appliances 1.4.5 is now available!
(Crossposted from the Netting out NetBackup blog) I'm very pleased to announce that the next Release Updates for Deduplication Appliances is now available! NetBackup 5000/5020/5030 Deduplication Appliances 1.4.5 is the latest patch release and can be applied on top of 1.4.3.1 or 1.4.4. This cumulative release contains almost 900 fixes! It also includes the following new features: Optimized Deduplication from PDDO to MSDP Configurable Fibre Channel buffer size for replication Agent Proliferations 3rd Party Component Upgrades Unique Message ID Support More information on this release can be found at the following links: NetBackup Deduplication Appliance 1.4.5 Patch (for NetBackup 5000, 5020, and 5030) http://symantec.com/docs/TECH224577 NetBackup Deduplication Appliance version 1.4.5 Release Notes (for NetBackup 5000, 5020 and 5030) http://symantec.com/docs/DOC7661 Documentation for NetBackup 5000/5020/5030 Deduplication Appliance version 1.4.5 http://symantec.com/docs/DOC7662 The latest information on all NetBackup Appliances can be found in the Late Breaking News document and on our Appliances landing page - have you bookmarked them yet? NetBackup 5xxx appliance series Late Breaking News http://symantec.com/docs/TECH145136 Short link: http://bit.ly/APPLBN NetBackup Appliance Technical Support http://go.symantec.com/nba/ bit.ly/761LBN | APPLBN | 76LBN
CRZ
10 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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opscenter port
Hii, Netbackup : 7.6.0.2 OS : Linux Opscenter :OpsCenter_7.6.0.1 Link : https://*.*.*.*:443/opscenter/ Can anybody please tell me the port required for accessingopscenter through web browser. Becausing when I am accessing opscenter through URL I am getting below error. "An unknown exception occured"
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Shailesh_raj72
10 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Symantec Netbackup appliance
Hi experts, i have new Symantec appliance 5220, i power on the box and i started following the documentation getting started for the appliance, initially i login using the user interface in web browser with IP http://192.168.1.1 from my laptop i was doing the public network interface, which did not completed coz we don't have a DNS server which is must seems to complete the configuration, but suddenly i was not able to re-login again with same user/password with bellow error msg: "Login failed. Please contact your System Administrator." kindlly find the attached also, any suggestions? BR, Thamer Salah
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thamerthamer
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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NIC Bonding
Hello, Having a little trouble getting 802.3ad nic teaming working on two 5230 appliances. I've configured teaming before on Windows 2008 servers and it seems to work fine. The network team configures LACP on the switch side, and on the server side, I create the team in 802.3ad mode. On the appliance however, I create the bond, and on cli as well as through the web interface of the appliance, it looks to be created and functional, but on the switch side it doesn't look to be active. The bond has been created with eth1,2 and 3 ports (1 Gb/s). The web interface shows them all as up, and the network configuration shows the correct IP on bond0(eth1,eth2,eth3) with bond mode at 802.3ad. On the switch side, for some reason, the bond automatically splits into 2 separate bonds, 1 bond with eth1 and the other with eth2 and eth3. Both bonds show with LACP configured. We have two identical appliances, and we have tried configuring bonding on both appliances and the exact same thing happens. Has anyone come across this, or have any suggestions of what else to check? Thanks!
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arctics2
11 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Appliance 5220 Suse linux will not start
Hello, I'm installing the applance 5220, I launched the initial setup, I have configured. Then I turned it off to add a storage self, I added it, I turned first storage self, the aplliance then, but this stays in the boot and not load the suse linux. Can you help? thanks Regards
Rdadism
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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Appliance 5220 root password.
Hi, What is the root password?
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Rdadism
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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HOW TO - configure a SAN based Tape Drive and Libr on a 5220 Appliance
Hello Techies, Could someone please provide a step by step guide on how to configure a SAN based Tape Drive and Libr on a 5220 Appliance configured as a Media Server to a traditional Master Server. NBU v7.5 5220 -v2.5 I understand that zoning of tape drive and libr is required but how to go about selecting the HBA port and locating a WWPN from the appliance to zone and the following steps. thank you to those who reply. -ESM
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ESM_Admin
12 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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NetBackup Appliance 5230 as Master Server
Hello there!! Does anybody know if I can upgrade a NetBackup Appliance 5230 configured as master server from 2.6.1 to 2.7.1? Or if I can have a NetBackup Appliance 5230 configured as master server with version 2.7.1? I try to find the information in SORT, but I don't realle understand if a 5230 master server can have 2.7.1 or not: "NetBackup 5200 Series Appliances running 2.x or later can be used as back-level media servers in a NetBackup 7.7.x configuration. NetBackup Appliance and NetBackup versions will resynchronize in future releases." And one more question, does anybody know how can I determine if I need to use a 4 Tb or a 14 Tb master server? Thanks!!
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Di_Ro
9 years ago Place NetBackup Appliance
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