Universal share accelerator for data deduplication
The universal share accelerator feature directly provides the file system mount point on the workload or client. It does not provide the NFS/SMB service. The data does not go to the storage server. The data goes directly to the cloud bucket and only sends the fingerprint-related metadata to the storage server to do the data deduplication. The data directly comes from cloud bucket when read data from an accelerator.
The universal share accelerator leverages the universal share with object store feature. The major difference is that universal share with object store is on the storage server side and universal share accelerator is on the client side. The universal share accelerator is delivered with NetBackup client packages. It requires you to install the NetBackup client on the respective workload with universal share accelerator feature enabled before user can create a universal share accelerator from the NetBackup web UI. Once the universal share accelerator has been created on the NetBackup web UI then you can configure the accelerator on the client side.
Client:
RHEL 7.6 and newer, RHEL 8.x and RHEL 9.x
Only supported in AWS or Azure.
Storage server:
Storage server version 19.0 and later
RHEL 7.6 and newer, RHEL 8.x and RHEL 9.x
Note:
Universal share accelerator is not supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise.
AKS/EKS or MSDP cluster with AWS/Azure
NetBackup:
Primary server: 10.3 and newer
Media server: 10.3 and newer
Client: 10.3 and newer
Universal share accelerator doesn't support multiple vpfsd instances.
DR is not supported for universal share accelerator.