Ransomware attackers specifically target and attempt to destroy backup systems to increase the probability of payment. Hardening your system is critical. Please ensure you have reviewed your platform security using the Security Hardening Checklist
Cohesity

COHESITY Documentation

Explore our documentation to get started, discover products & new features, access troubleshooting guides, register sources, platforms support.

Products
Data Security Alliance
Visit Cohesity.com
Demos
Support
Blogs
Developers
Partner Portals
Cohesity Community
© 2026 Cohesity, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use|
Privacy Policy|
Legal|
  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide
  3. Tuning disk I/O performance
  4. About NetBackup performance and the hardware hierarchy
  5. Summary of performance hierarchies
NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

Summary of performance hierarchies

When you are putting together systems, remember that you are doing this to ensure that your data is available and has enough bandwidth/speed to meet the performance requirements. For this reason, invest in quality disk or SSD storage as criteria 1.

Next, configure enough bandwidth on your network to handle the peak amount of traffic allowing you to process the maximum concurrent jobs defined in the service level agreement.

Lastly, configure enough processor cores that are needed for the type of data to be backed up. Do not under populate the amount of DRAM allocated to the compute node. For example, we recommend at least 1GB of DRAM for every TB of storage for running deduplication.

More recommendations on the hardware design of the NetBackup compute node is available:

See NetBackup hardware design and tuning considerations.

Feedback

Was this page helpful?
Previous

About performance hierarchy level 4

Next

Notes on performance hierarchies

Feedback

Was this page helpful?