Purpose of this guide
This guide covers NetBackup release 8.3 and later. The purpose of this guide is to provide recommendations and guardrails based on extensive field experience. Results may differ based on your unique environment.
Veritas NetBackup is a high-performance data protection application. Its architecture is designed for large and complex distributed computing environments. NetBackup provides scalable storage servers (primary and media servers) that can be configured for network backup, recovery, archiving, and file migration services.
This guide is for administrators who want to analyze, evaluate, and tune NetBackup performance. It is intended to provide guidance on questions such as the following: How big should the NetBackup primary server be? How can the server be tuned for maximum performance? How many CPUs and disk or tape drives are needed? How to configure backups to run as fast as possible? How to improve recovery times? What tools can characterize or measure how NetBackup handles data? How to tune NetBackup for different workloads, in particular with a high number of small concurrent jobs and a few large jobs.
Note:
Most critical factors in performance are based in hardware rather than software. Compared to software, hardware configuration has roughly four times greater effect on performance. Although this guide provides some hardware configuration assistance, it is assumed for the most part that your devices are correctly configured.
For additional planning or performance-related information, refer to the following documents:
Support for NetBackup 7.7.x, 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x in virtual environments
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_70_80_VE
NetBackup Deduplication Guide
Go to the NetBackup Documentation Landing Page, select the appropriate release, and then the guide:
Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) Cheat Sheet
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100006475