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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
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  4. Planning your OpenStorage deployment
Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk

Planning your OpenStorage deployment

Table: OpenStorage deployment provides an overview of NetBackup OpenStorage. This overview and the topics to which it refers may help you plan your deployment.

Table: OpenStorage deployment

Step

Task

Instructions

Step 1

Read about requirements and limitations

See About OpenStorage requirements and limitations.

Step 2

Learn about storage servers, data movers, and credentials

See About OpenStorage storage servers for backups.

See About OpenStorage data movers for backups.

See About OpenStorage server credentials.

Step 3

Learn about disk pools

See About OpenStorage disk pools for backups.

See About spanning volumes in OpenStorage disk pools.

Step 4

Learn about optimized duplication and replication

See About OpenStorage optimized duplication and replication.

Step 5

Learn about optimized synthetic backups

See About OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups.

Step 6

Learn about storage unit groups for OpenStorage

See About storage unit groups for OpenStorage.

Step 7

Learn about copy to tape

See About OpenStorage direct to tape.

Step 8

Learn about provisioning the storage

See About provisioning the disk appliance storage.

Step 9

Learn about how storage units can control traffic

See About OpenStorage storage unit recommendations.

Step 10

See the configuration overview topics

See Configuring OpenStorage disk appliance storage.

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