VLAN tagging on 10Gig interfaces of Access 3340 appliance
Access appliance has bond0 configured on the 10Gig interfaces and IP are assigned on bond0 without any VLAN and storage server on NBU is already configured using the virtual IP address. However, we need to configure two VLANs on bond0, one for the existing connection and another for replication. Please guide how I can move bond0 virtual & physical IPs to bond0.<vlan_id>. Attached diagram for more clarity.Access 7.4.2 GAs on October 1 2018
Today (10/1/18) marks the release of the 7.4.2 version of Access. The new release has several new features, but by far the most important of those features is support for NetBackup deduplication on the Access Appliance. Deduplication targets cost-of-ownership reduction (a key focus for the Access Appliance) with features like support for client-direct data deduplication, and multi-domain global deduplication. Most of the Access collateral has been rewritten for this new functionality. Check out the blog here, or visit the Access web page here.
Breaking News! Veritas Doubles Appliance Offerings
Its big news! Since March we’ve double our appliances portfolio, launched our first storage system the Access 3340 Appliance, and the Flex Appliance, our first containerized data protection solution. The Access Appliance is a purpose-built storage solution for long term retention of backup and, archive data and other retention-type use cases such as video surveillance and healthcare PACs image data. Not surprisingly, The Access Appliance is built on our popular Veritas Accessscale-out NAS software. The Flex Appliance is a very clever platform for delivering Veritas data protection services including NetBackupand CloudCatalyst. Rather than running these appson dedicated servers, with the Flex Appliance, multiple data protection services are deployed in containers on a single appliance. Turn on a data protection or cloud tiering service as needed, without touching additional hardware. The containerized, microservices architecture of the Flex Appliance even goes a lot further than hyperconverged when it comes to simplifying infrastructure and the speed and ease of deployment as it supports multiple NBU domains and CloudCatalyst instances simultaneously. I can guess what you’re thinking. Why is Veritas offering more and more appliances when everything Veritas has been software defined? The primary reason; many of you in the community have asked us to. Particularly for Access. There’s a unique aspect to our appliances. A secret I'll share with my readers. Shhhhh. They’re still software defined. The software license is decoupled from the hardware we deliver it on. Here’s a couple examples of what I mean. Let’s say you purchase an Access 3340 Appliance, and a year from now you find a shiny, new storage server. You can move the Access software license to that new hardware. It also works the other way around. Maybe you’re running NBU software today on a white box server but want to upgrade to the Flex Appliance. No problem. That license you already have can be used to enable NBU on Flex (assuming minimum supported version, of course). Veritas appliances are really the best of both worlds. All the benefits of a software-based solution with the peace of mind that you’re not locked into Veritas hardware. I’m thinking we should have called them un-appliances. What do you think? Please add your thoughts and comments to the discussion.Fujitsu selects Veritas Access as their next-gen storage infrastructure to support K5
Have you read today’s news? FujitsuLimited(Minato-ku, Tokyo) has selectedVeritas TM Access,a software-defined scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) solution, as the premier storage infrastructure for theFujitsu Cloud Service K5. Fujitsu selected Veritas Access due to the following key benefits: Scale-out architecture that enables the cluster’s hardware to be added or replaced without taking systems off-line Flexibility in supporting multiple protocols and the ability to seamlessly interface with different types of storage Control and efficiency Advanced technology with proven record of supporting global mission critical systems Read the press release and share your thoughts by commenting below.
Tape Elimination with Veritas Access
A significant number of my NetBackup customers are currently looking to eliminate tape within their environments. For a long time people have been saying that tape is dead but until recently I never believed it because of the amount of data you could store on an LTO tape and the performance of the drives, made it cheaper than an average disk array. With the introduction of deduplication technology, tape elimination started to become a reality but the cost to keep the data beyond a few months on deduplication pools was not cost effective and meant that tape still had a place within the environment for long-term retention. With Veritas Access this is about to change as customers are now able to send their long term backups via S3 to a cost effective scale-out NAS solution. This effectively creates a two-tiered storage platform for the backup environment, with primary backups sent to high performance storage while leveraging advanced features such as client-side deduplication and Accelerator synthetic backups to reduce backup windows. Any backups that need to be kept for long-term retention would be automatically duplicated to Veritas Access via S3. This approach reduces the amount of primary storage required, eliminates tape, including all the operational costs associated with it and if using NetBackup Appliances or custom built Media Server Deduplication Pools (MSDP), provides a single vendor backup solution. With this new approach to backups, tape elimination may become a reality after all.
