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 |
|---|---|---|
Step 1 | Learn about deduplication nodes and storage destinations | |
Step 2 | Understand the storage capacity and requirements | |
Step 3 | Determine which type of deduplication to use | See About NetBackup media server deduplication. |
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. |
Step 5 | Determine the credentials for deduplication | |
Step 6 | Read about compression and encryption | |
Step 7 | Read about optimized synthetic backups | |
Step 8 | Read about deduplication and SAN Client | |
Step 9 | Read about optimized duplication and replication | |
Step 10 | Read about stream handlers | |
Step 11 | Read about best practices for implementation | |
Step 12 | Determine the storage requirements and provision the storage | |
Step 13 | License MSDP | |
Step 14 | Configure MSDP | |
Step 15 | Migrate from other storage to NetBackup deduplication |
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