Size guidance for Veritas NetBackup master server and domain
Veritas always recommends a comprehensive data protection assessment to determine the optimal configuration for a NetBackup master and NetBackup domain. The information that is shown is meant as a guideline, not as a hard limit. NetBackup can scale to higher job counts with appropriate resources.
Catalog size not to exceed 1-3TB
A key factor in the NetBackup catalog size is based on the data protection approach you plan to use. If your catalog exceeds 3TB please contact your Veritas Account SE for more information.
The catalog disk needs good read and write performance especially in large environments.
The number of devices in the EMM database should not exceed 1500.
The number of media servers should not exceed 100.
The number of jobs should not exceed 30,000 per 24 hours.
The number of processors affects how well the master server scales. Table: Sizing guidelines provides additional information.
Table: Sizing guidelines
Number of processors | Minimum memory requirement | Maximum number of jobs per day | Maximum number of media servers per master server |
|---|---|---|---|
4 | 16GB | 10,000 | 20 |
8 | 32GB | 20,000 | 50 |
16 | 64GB | 30,000 | 100 |
Note:
Additional recommendations about processor and memory requirements is available.
See Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux.
See Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters.