Planning your MSDP deployment
Table: Deployment overview provides an overview of planning your deployment of NetBackup deduplication.
Table: Deployment overview
Step | Deployment task | Where to find the information |
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Step 1 |
Learn about deduplication nodes and storage destinations | |
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Step 2 |
Understand the storage capacity and requirements | |
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Step 3 |
Determine which type of deduplication to use |
See About NetBackup media server deduplication. |
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Step 4 |
Determine the requirements for deduplication hosts |
See About MSDP storage servers. See About MSDP server requirements. See About MSDP client deduplication requirements and limitations. See About the network interface for MSDP. See About scaling MSDP. |
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Step 5 |
Determine the credentials for deduplication | |
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Step 6 |
Read about compression and encryption | |
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Step 7 |
Read about optimized synthetic backups | |
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Step 8 |
Read about deduplication and SAN Client | |
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Step 9 |
Read about optimized duplication and replication | |
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Step 10 |
Read about stream handlers | |
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Step 11 |
Read about best practices for implementation | |
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Step 12 |
Determine the storage requirements and provision the storage |
See About provisioning the storage for MSDP. See About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements. |
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Step 13 |
Configure MSDP | |
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Step 14 |
Migrate from other storage to NetBackup deduplication |