About Veritas Data Deduplication
Access Appliance is integrated with a duplication engine which is based on Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) technology for storing backup data. The storage server component of Veritas Data Deduplication runs on the Access Appliance nodes with high availability in active/passive mode. The deduplication plug-in of the NetBackup media server does segmentation and finger printing of the backup data and sends the deduplicated data to Access Appliance. The Veritas Data Deduplication storage server stores and manages the deduplicated data. The deduplication storage server provides high availability to protect against storage, node, and network failures. It supports client direct as well as media server deduplication configurations.
Considerations before configuring Veritas Data Deduplication:
All storage that is provisioned for Veritas Data Deduplication is displayed as a single storage pool on NetBackup.
Access Appliance supports only a single storage pool for Veritas Data Deduplication and it requires minimum (or multiple) of five disks in the storage pool.