We are currently running 10 GbE from our Linux backup servers to the dedupe appliances. The dedupe appliance vendor does charge a significant price for their OST compatible license/plugin. It is a one-time license that can be used with multiple media servers or even multiple NetBackup domains. But also note, the vendor plugin also offloads most of the dedupe process to the media server based on the plugin. This significantly reduces the amount of traffic between the media servers and the dedupe appliance. But if your media server is low on memory or CPU, the plugin could drive you over the top.
The other nice thing with replication to remote sites is easy, and uses very little bandwidth. Essentially NetBackup controls the replication but the dedupe appliance is actually moving the data - in deduplicated form. This can be done using a remote media server to your local NetBackup domain, or it can be done with AIR. We do both methods, for various reasons. If you go with AIR and a dedupe vendor, you may need to go to NBU 7.6.x. AIR with other vendor's dedupe has some limitations based on NBU version. I think the NBU appliance solution is also very competitive. All forms of replication are intrinsically supported. No need to consult the vendor support matrix every time you upgrade, or to see if new features are supported. The Deduplication is built in, replication via AIR and/or SLP's is supported. The appliances have built-in 10 GbE. Jonathan, as far as your DR solution goes, it should work, other than in your DR scenario your appliance is going to contain "copy 2" of the backup. And that is dependent on the name of the remote appliance/path is identical to the name in your current production setup. If the name has to change in any fashion, you might actually have to import all the disk images. I would test the DR configuration to be sure. -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Lightner, Jeff Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:29 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Deduplication with OST We never got OST license here but use Deduplication. We do it using 10 GB Ethernet NFS mounts from the Dedupe appliances on each of our master and media servers. It may not be cheaper in the long run to buy a 10 GB switch and 10 GB HBAs for every server (although some now come with embedded) than using OST (especially if you already have a fibre san). Here our solution evolved from 1 GB NFS to the 10 GB with switch so has been done over time. Both the Data Domain and the Quantum DXi dedupe appliances allow for the 10 GB (which runs at fibre speeds but does Ethernet instead of SCSi). My understanding is that most of the Dedupe appliance makers allow you to do a setup to wherein you have one (or more) unit(s) on site and similar offsite and do background synchronization from the onsite to offsite to avoid having to send tapes. Here we are still doing Dedupe onsite but duplicating to tapes to be sent offsite (again because of evolution - we used to backup directly to tape). -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:25 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Deduplication with OST All, We are currently running 7.5 on Windows and looking to add deduplication appliances as a backup target. Ideally, we would purchase the DPOO (OST/AIR) license to keep track of the images as they write locally and then replicate to DR, but that may not be a possibility based on budgetary concerns. Without getting into the specifics of which deduplication appliances we are looking at, I can safely assume that we can use a DSU or DSSU to write to a local CIFS target (e.g. \\Prod-Appliance\Backup1 replicated behind the scenes to \\DR-Appliance\Backup1). I am looking at a scenario where we use VM replication to replicate the master/media servers from Prod to DR. When I bring up this master/media in DR, could I use a hostname/DNS alias to make \\Prod-Appliance redirect to \\DR-Appliance? I realize that this is essentially a "poor man's OST/AIR", but this may be the path I have to go down due to budgetary constraints. Is anyone doing anything similar to this? In previous versions of Netbackup I could crack open the catalog files to modify the fragment locations (e.g. E:\Backup --> F:\Backup) but it looks like those pointers have all been moved (into the DB?) Your ideas are appreciated, -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Athena(r), Created for the Cause(tm) Making a Difference in the Fight Against Breast Cancer __________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. 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