Hi NetBackup Forum,
we are in the process to replace our NetBackup Windows Media Servers.
Right now these are 6 Windows 2008R2 boxes with SAN conntected NetApp Storage to do Dedup into a MSDP, on top of that a Quantum tape Lib is connected to these media server sharing 20 LTO5 drives.
The windows boxes go out of hardware support shortly, so we have to replace them. But what is a suitable solution?
We have 3 different approaches
- replace the Windows Media servers with new ones, buy SAN Storage attach it and go on. In essence the same setup we have now, only with a hardware refresh.
- buy Windows servers with direct attached storage, configure raids, place the DeDup pools on the raids.
- Check out the NetBackup Appliances
What do you guys run in your datacenters? What are the advantages/disadvatages for the 3 appoaches.
- SAN Storage? -> expensive
- Direct attached storage? -> Not redundant, backups need to be duplicated to another media server, so we need double the storage space.
- NBU Appliances? -> seems expensive?
What we need:
- SAN Tape drives sharing between Windows & AIX Media server host, or connected to the NBU appliances.
- DeDup pools for windows fileserver data
- Advanced disk or DSU for MSSQL/DB2 log backups.
- The data to backup is ~140TB, right know we have ~100TB disk storage and 2 x 700 slot tape libs with 10 drives each.
Every suggestion is welcome. :)
Thanks
Volker