Key features and capabilities
Cohesity Data Cloud for NetBackup provides the following key capabilities:
Containerized NetBackup media services on the Cohesity platform
NetBackup media server functionality runs as containerized services on Cohesity cluster nodes. This design eliminates the need for a dedicated standalone media server infrastructure while allowing an external NetBackup primary server to continue managing policies, scheduling, and catalog operations.
NetBackup‑driven job orchestration and distribution
NetBackup Job Manager continues to control job scheduling and distributes backup and restore jobs across available media server instances. This ensures load-balanced execution and preserves standard NetBackup job control behavior while leveraging the distributed infrastructure.
Direct-IO optimized data path to SpanFS storage
Uses NetBackup Direct-IO to enable a direct, high-performance data path from NetBackup media services and clients to SpanFS storage. This approach bypasses traditional file system mount paths and removes intermediate bottlenecks, improving backup and recovery performance.
Scale-out, enterprise-grade storage using SpanFS
Backup data is stored on Cohesity's distributed SpanFS file system, which provides deduplication, compression, snapshots, immutability (WORM), replication, and fault tolerance. This architecture replaces traditional MSDP and array-based deduplication storage.
High-performance and resilient distributed data plane
The solution uses distributed services to provide load balancing, secure communication, and parallel data transfer across cluster nodes. This enables scalable, high-throughput backup and recovery operations.
Support for optimized duplication and Auto Image Replication (AIR)
Supports the efficient data movement across storage targets using NetBackup storage lifecycle policies, enabling optimized duplication, and cross-domain replication workflows.
Integration with existing NetBackup workflows
Preserves an existing NetBackup administration workflows, including policies, schedules, catalogs, and job control, allowing seamless adoption without changes to operational processes.
Support for data protection and compliance requirements
Provides WORM storage and retention capabilities to meet enterprise data protection and regulatory requirements.
These capabilities enable efficient, scalable, and secure data protection while preserving familiar NetBackup administration and operational practices.