[Veritas-bu] Number of clients one NBU admin can manage.

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Hickey
Folks, Assuming a mix of about 50% VM and 50% physical clients, and a large ( several hundred) Oracle and SQL Server (almost 2000) presence, are there ant rules of thumb about how many clients a NBU backup admin can handle? Thanks ___ Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Number of clients one NBU admin can manage.

2011-09-19 Thread Joel Sadler
This is, imnsho, almost entirely dependent upon the skill level of the Admin. Many admins are capable of almost singlehandedly administering multi-thousand client installations with dozens of media servers in multiple locations. Scripts, automation (where applicable), and some long term

Re: [Veritas-bu] Number of clients one NBU admin can manage.

2011-09-19 Thread smpt
You can have unlimited clients but it is not recommended to have more than 90 media servers. Also you must know that NetBackup can start one job (not policy) per second. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]