Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
- Introducing disk appliance storage solutions
- Planning your deployment
- Planning your OpenStorage deployment
- About OpenStorage requirements and limitations
- About OpenStorage storage servers for backups
- About OpenStorage server credentials
- About OpenStorage data movers for backups
- About the OpenStorage plug-in
- About OpenStorage disk pools for backups
- About OpenStorage optimized duplication and replication
- About OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- About storage unit groups for OpenStorage
- About OpenStorage direct to tape
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing OpenStorage
- Configuring OpenStorage in NetBackup
- Configuring OpenStorage disk appliance storage
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage server for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage disk pool for backups
- Configuring an OpenStorage storage unit
- Configuring OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
- Configuring OpenStorage direct to tape
- Configuring optimized duplication to an OpenStorage device within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring replication to an OpenStorage device in a different domain
- About storage lifecycle policies
- About the storage lifecycle policies required for Auto Image Replication
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Creating a backup policy
- Adding OpenStorage functionality to an existing environment
- Managing OpenStorage
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Viewing OpenStorage storage servers
- Determining OpenStorage storage server state
- Changing OpenStorage storage server properties
- Setting OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Removing OpenStorage storage server attributes
- Updating an OpenStorage storage server to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage storage server
- Managing OpenStorage server credentials
- Managing OpenStorage data movers
- Managing OpenStorage disk pools
- Viewing OpenStorage disk pools
- Determining OpenStorage disk pool state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool state
- Determining OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk volume state
- Changing OpenStorage disk pool properties
- Setting OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Removing OpenStorage disk pool attributes
- Adding volumes to an OpenStorage disk pool
- Merging OpenStorage disk pools
- Removing a volume from an OpenStorage disk pool
- Updating an OpenStorage disk pool to reflect plug-in updates
- Deleting an OpenStorage disk pool
- Monitoring OpenStorage storage capacity and usage
- Viewing OpenStorage disk reports
- Reporting on Auto Image Replication jobs
- About catalog backups to OpenStorage devices
- About restoring from OpenStorage backup copies
- About restoring from a backup at a target master domain
- Managing OpenStorage storage servers
- Troubleshooting
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.
