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Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

About MSDP storage capacity

The following table describes the maximum deduplication storage capacity for a single Media Server Deduplication Pool:

Table: Maximum MSDP storage capacities

Maximum capacity

Description

64 TBs

For all supported systems, NetBackup supports up to 64 TBs of storage in a single Media Server Deduplication Pool.

96 TBs

NetBackup supports 96 TBs of storage in a new Media Server Deduplication Pool on the supported versions of the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Linux

  • SUSE Linux

NetBackup reserves 4 percent of the storage space for the deduplication database and transaction logs. Therefore, a storage full condition is triggered at a 96-percent threshold. If you use separate storage for the deduplication database, NetBackup still uses the 96-percent threshold to protect the data storage from any possible overload.

If your storage requirements exceed the capacity of a Media Server Deduplication Pool, you can use more than one media server deduplication node.

See About MSDP deduplication nodes.

For the operating system versions that NetBackup supports for deduplication, see the NetBackup operating system compatibility list available through the following URL:

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

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