As I mentioned in post about what’s new in vSphere 6.0, VMware announced that vSphere Data Protection Advanced will be included in Essentials+ or higher vSphere license! The features of VDPA are as follows: Scale up to 8Tb of deduplication (variable-length and global per appliance) storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. Support for up to 20 virtual appliances… Read More »
This post covers overview of NetBackup for Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). NDMP allows to initiate and control backups and restores of Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. NDMP architecture follows the client and server model: The NetBackup master or media server where NetBackup for NDMP is installed is called a NetBackup for NDMP server. The host where the… Read More »
This post covers Media Server Deduplication Storage Pool (MSDP) which is an embedded deduplication technology that ships and is installed with base NetBackup 7.6 software, and that is provided on NetBackup appliances running version 2.6 software. There are below benefits of deduplication: Reduce the amount of data that is stored. Reduce backup bandwidth. Reduce backup windows. Reduce infrastructure.… Read More »
