Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.0)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. About this Guide
    1.  
      About this guide
    2.  
      About the intended audience
    3.  
      About the NetBackup appliance documentation
  2. Section I. Capacity planning
    1. Analyzing your backup requirements
      1. Analyzing your backup requirements
        1.  
          What do you want to backup?
        2.  
          How much data do you want to back up?
        3.  
          When should the backup take place?
        4.  
          What is the retention period?
        5. Record your backup requirements
          1.  
            Template to record computer system information
          2.  
            Template to record database information
          3.  
            Template to record application server information
    2. Designing your backup system
      1.  
        Addressing use cases of backup systems for enterprises
      2.  
        Addressing use cases of backup systems for remote or branch offices
      3. About NetBackup appliances
        1.  
          About the Master Server role
        2.  
          About the Media Server role
      4. Selecting new appliances
        1.  
          Selecting a media server
        2.  
          Selecting a master server
  3. Section II. Best Practices
    1. About the best practices section
      1.  
        About best practices
      2.  
        References to maintenance sites
    2. About implementing deduplication solutions
      1.  
        About implementing deduplication solutions
      2.  
        General recommendations
      3.  
        Oracle
      4.  
        Microsoft SQL
      5.  
        DB2
      6.  
        Sybase
      7.  
        Lotus Notes
    3. Network consideration
      1.  
        About network considerations
      2.  
        About Fibre Channel connectivity
      3. About SAN zone configurations
        1.  
          About zoning the SAN for NetBackup appliances
      4.  
        Validating network bandwidth
    4. Storage configuration
      1.  
        About storage configuration
      2. About configuring a shared storage pool
        1.  
          Calculating the basic stream count for backups
      3. About moving a storage partition for better performance
        1. Moving a partition
          1.  
            Move <partition> dialog
        2.  
          Moving a partition using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
        3.  
          Moving the MSDP partition from a base disk to an expansion disk for optimum performance
    5. Generic best practices
      1.  
        Generic best practices
      2.  
        About Notification settings
      3.  
        About IPMI configuration
      4.  
        Disaster recovery best practices
      5.  
        Job performance
      6.  
        Architecture
      7.  
        NetBackup Catalog Backup
      8.  
        Patching with the SLP (storage lifecycle policies)
      9.  
        VMware backups using appliances
      10.  
        Improving NetBackup Appliance restore performance
  4. Section III. Performance tuning
    1. Role-based Performance Monitoring
      1.  
        Role-based configuration as a factor affecting performance
      2.  
        What affects the performance of a Master Server?
      3.  
        What affects the performance of a media server (MSDP)?
    2. Optimize network settings and improve performance
      1.  
        Optimize network settings and improve performance
      2.  
        SAN Fiber Channel setup
      3.  
        Network bonding
      4.  
        VMware VADP
      5.  
        Jumbo frame implementation for increased MTU
    3. Storage configurations
      1.  
        Storage configurations
      2.  
        Deduplication disk I/O and RAID level settings
      3. RAID Controller operations
        1.  
          RAID Controller commands
      4.  
        Deduplication load balancing
      5.  
        Storage Lifecycle Policies
      6.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR)
      7.  
        AdvancedDisk settings
      8.  
        Tape Out operations
    4. NetBackup Appliance tuning procedures and performance monitoring
      1. About diagnosing performance issues
        1.  
          About CPU monitoring and tuning
        2.  
          About memory monitoring and tuning
        3.  
          About network monitoring and tuning
        4.  
          About I/O monitoring and tuning
        5.  
          General guidelines to spot a resource bottleneck
      2. About performance tuning practices
        1.  
          About I/O performance tuning
        2.  
          About Oracle backup and restore performance tuning
        3.  
          Setting NET_BUFFER_SZ to 0 on the NetBackup client for better WAN Optimization performance
      3. About tuning procedures and performance monitoring
        1. NetBackup Client performance
          1.  
            Using nbperfchk to validate disk performance on NetBackup Appliances
        2.  
          Other Performance Monitoring commands
  5. Section IV. Quick reference to Capacity planning and Performance tuning
    1. Capacity Planning checklist
      1.  
        Checklist for Capacity planning
      2.  
        Capacity measuring worksheet
    2. Best practices checklist
      1.  
        Best practices checklist
    3. How to monitor the performance of your appliance
      1.  
        About monitoring the performance of your appliance
      2.  
        Performance Monitoring matrix

About the NetBackup appliance documentation

The following documents help to ensure that you can successfully install, configure, and use your appliance. In addition, you can find information about the appliance hardware documents from the following table.

All these documents are posted on the NetBackup Appliance Documentation page.

Table: NetBackup Appliance Software documentation

Guide

Description

NetBackup™ 52xx Initial Appliance Configuration Guide

This document guides you through the 52xx configuration process from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console or from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

NetBackup™ 53xx Initial Appliance Configuration Guide

This document guides you through the 53xx configuration process from the NetBackup Appliance Web Console or from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

NetBackup Appliance Upgrade Guide

This document guides you through the required steps to upgrade a NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide

The NetBackup™ Appliance Administrator's Guide contains the following types of information:

  • Deployment information

  • Administering your appliance

  • Monitoring information

NetBackup™ Appliance Command Reference Guide

The NetBackup™ Appliance Command Reference Guide provides a complete list of the commands that are available for you to use through the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu.

NetBackup Appliance Release Notes

This document contains information about this version of NetBackup Appliance. It contains brief descriptions of new features within the release, operational notes that apply to the release update, and any known issues.

NetBackup Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

This document contains the latest troubleshooting information for the NetBackup appliances.

NetBackup Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

This document contains information on how to optimize your backup environment and your NetBackup appliance. It helps you to analyze your backup requirements and design a system that best fits your needs.

NetBackup Appliance Security Guide

This document describes the security features in NetBackup Appliance and how to use those features to ensure that your appliance environment is secure.

NetBackup Appliance Fibre Channel Guide

This document describes the supported Fibre Channel (FC) capabilities and configurations for NetBackup appliances.

NetBackup Appliance iSCSI Guide

This document describes how iSCSI works on the NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup Appliance Decommissioning and Reconfiguration Guide

This document describes how to decommission and reconfigure a NetBackup appliance.

NetBackup Appliance SNMP Trap Reference Guide

This document provides a complete list of the NetBackup Appliance SNMP traps. It describes what each trap means and the recommended actions for when an error occurs.

NetBackup Copilot for Oracle Configuration Guide

This document outlines how to configure Copilot using NetBackup and the NetBackup Appliance.

NetBackup Appliance Third-party Legal Notices

The NetBackup Appliance Third-party Legal Notices document lists the third-party software that is included in this product, and it contains attributions for the third-party software.

This document is available from the following website:

https://www.veritas.com/about/legal/license-agreements

NetBackup™ Appliance AutoSupport 2.0 Reference Guide

This document contains the information about the AutoSupport 2.0. It helps you to understand the deployment of the AutoSupport infrastructure, and how does the AutoSupport infrastructure analyzes the Call Home data from each appliances.

NetBackup™ 53xx Appliance High Availability Reference Guide

This document contains the information about the High Availability (HA) solution. It helps you to understand the deployment of the high availability configuration.

Table: NetBackup Appliance Hardware documentation

Guide

Description

NetBackup™ 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelf Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5230 Appliance and Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5240 Appliance and Storage Shelf.

NetBackup™ 5330 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5330 Appliance and Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ 5340 Appliance Product Description

This guide introduces you to the NetBackup 5340 Appliance and the 5U84 Storage Shelves.

NetBackup™ Appliance Safety and Maintenance Guide

This document provides safety maintenance information for the following hardware:

  • NetBackup 52xx appliances

  • NetBackup 53xx appliances

  • Veritas 3U16 24TB/36TB Storage Shelves

  • Veritas 2U12 49TB Storage Shelf

  • Veritas 5U84 Storage Shelves