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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring deduplication to the cloud with NetBackup CloudCatalyst
  4. Configuring a Linux media server as a CloudCatalyst storage server
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Configuring a Linux media server as a CloudCatalyst storage server

The CloudCatalyst storage server is a dedicated media server for MSDP deduplicated cloud storage.

The media server that is configured as the CloudCatalyst storage server must be one of the following host types:

  • NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance

    Documentation for the CloudCatalyst Appliance can be found at the following website:

    https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/Appliances.html

  • A Linux media server with specifications similar to the NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance. The following section lists the software and hardware requirements for this media server.

Specifications for a Linux media server

The dedicated media server that will be configured as a CloudCatalyst storage server should meet or exceed the specifications of the NetBackup CloudCatalyst Appliance. The requirements for this MSDP media server are greater than the minimum MSDP server requirements:

See About MSDP server requirements.

In addition to the technical requirements that are listed in Table: NetBackup 5240 Appliance technical specifications, the media server must also contain the following:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later.

  • NetBackup 8.1 or later.

  • A minimum of 4 TB available for the CloudCatalyst local cache directory.

    See About the CloudCatalyst cache.

  • The processor must support the SSE4.2 instruction set.

The technical specifications for the NetBackup 5240 Appliance are listed in the appendix of the NetBackup 5240 Appliance Product Description. Table: NetBackup 5240 Appliance technical specifications lists a subset of minimum requirements for the media server.

Table: NetBackup 5240 Appliance technical specifications

Technical Specification

NetBackup 5240 Appliance

Processor

Two Intel® Xenon® E5-2630 v3 2.40 GHz processors

CPU speed

2.40 GHz

Cores

16 (8 per processor)

System memory

192 GB

DDR4 RDIMM

Usable MSDP storage capacity

14 TB with 1 GB RAID 6 cache

Note:

If a Linux media server (non-appliance) is used, it must have a minimum of 4 TB available for the CloudCatalyst local cache directory.

See About the CloudCatalyst cache.

10 Gb Ethernet ports

5

If you don't use a NetBackup appliance, the following table describes the minimum system requirements for a media server that is configured for CloudCatalyst.

Table: NetBackup minimum system requirements

Hardware

Minimum specifications

CPU speed

2.4 GHz

Cores

4

System memory

16 GB

10 Gb Ethernet ports

1

Note:

Multiple networking interface cards (NIC) may be desired for redundancy and connectivity reasons.

Cache size

1 TB

CPU instruction set support

SSE 4.2

Aggregate throughput

1,000 MB/s

Optimal streams

16

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