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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Planning your deployment
  4. Planning your MSDP deployment
Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

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

See About MSDP deduplication nodes.

See About the NetBackup deduplication destinations.

Step 2

Understand the storage capacity and requirements

See About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements.

Step 3

Determine which type of deduplication to use

See About NetBackup media server deduplication.

See About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication.

See About MSDP remote office client 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 MSDP port usage.

See About scaling MSDP.

See About MSDP performance.

Step 5

Determine the credentials for deduplication

See About the NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials.

Step 6

Read about compression and encryption

See About MSDP compression.

See About MSDP encryption.

Step 7

Read about optimized synthetic backups

See About MSDP optimized synthetic backups.

Step 8

Read about deduplication and SAN Client

See About MSDP and SAN Client.

Step 9

Read about optimized duplication and replication

See About MSDP optimized duplication and replication.

Step 10

Read about stream handlers

See About MSDP stream handlers.

Step 11

Read about best practices for implementation

See MSDP deployment best practices.

Step 12

Determine the storage requirements and provision the storage

See About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements.

See MSDP storage path properties.

Step 13

License MSDP

See About the MSDP license.

Step 14

Configure MSDP

See Configuring MSDP server-side deduplication.

See Configuring MSDP client-side deduplication.

Step 15

Migrate from other storage to NetBackup deduplication

See Migrating from another storage type to MSDP.

More Information

Licensing NetBackup MSDP

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