About the NetBackup OpenStorage option
OpenStorage is a Veritas API that allows NetBackup to communicate with the storage implementations that conform to the API. Storage vendors participate in the Veritas Technology Partners Program. Veritas qualifies their storage solutions for the OpenStorage API.
Depending on the storage implementation, OpenStorage may provide the following capabilities:
Share disks. Multiple heterogeneous media servers can access the same disk volume concurrently.
Balance load and performance. NetBackup balances backup jobs and storage usage among the media servers and disk pools. For each backup job, NetBackup chooses the least full disk volume and least busy media server.
Use of disk appliance capabilities, which may include optimized off-host duplication and deduplicated storage capabilities.
Fast storage provisioning.
Almost unlimited storage.
Alternative to off-site vaulting.
Simplified disaster recovery. Access your data from anywhere over the Internet.
Figure: OpenStorage appliance configuration shows an OpenStorage configuration that uses a disk appliance.
