Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (3.2, 3.1.2)
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.  
        About NetBackup 53xx High Availability solution
      5. 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 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 Fibre 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

Moving a partition using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu

In the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu use the Manage > Storage > Move command to move storage partition from one disk to another disk. To move a partition from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu use the following procedure:

To move a partition from the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu:

  1. Log onto the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu as an administrator.
  2. To move a partition use the following command:

    Move Partition SourceDiskID TargetDiskID [[Size] [Unit]]

    In this command:

    • Partition refers to the storage partition like AdvancedDisk, Configuration, MSDP and so on.

    • SourceDiskID refers to the disk ID of the source disk. Use the Storage > Show Distribution command to view the disk ID and the partitions on the disk. For example, S0001FB362501ABDA0000009se.

    • TargetDiskID refers to the disk ID of the target disk. Use Storage > Show Distribution command to view the disk ID and the partitions on it. For example, S2301FB362501ABDA0000009se.

    • [[Size]] refers to the partition size. Partition size must be greater than 0. If you specify a partition size that is greater than the actual partition size, appliance moves the whole partition. The default value is [1].

    • [[Unit]] refers to unit size (GB/TB/PB). The default value is [PB].

    The following example displays the initiated procedure when you run the Move command: 

    Storage > Move AdvancedDisk S0001FB362501ABDA0000009se
S2301FB3BC00540A62501ABDA0000009se 5 GB

- [Info] Performing sanity check on disks and partitions... 
(5 mins approx)

- [Warning] Do not reboot the appliance while the partition move is in
progress.

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Manage > Storage > Move

- [Info] The estimated time to move the partition can range from
0 hours, 1 minutes to 0 hours, 2 minutes depending on the
system load.

The greater the system load the longer it takes to complete the
move operation.

>> Do you want to continue? (yes/no) yes

Moving part '1/1' disks... Done

- [Warning] No recipients are configured to receive software
notifications.

Use 'Settings->Alerts->Email Software Add' command to configure
the appropriate Email address.

- [Info] Succeeded.