Veritas NetBackup™ Installation Guide
- Preparing for installation
- General installation information
- Available NetBackup installation methods
- About compatibility between NetBackup versions
- About NetBackup software availability
- How to install NetBackup
- Creating the user account to support the NetBackup web server
- About storage device configuration
- About security certificates for NetBackup hosts
- Restrictions on the NetBackup installation directory
- Installation operational notes and limitations
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Host ID-based certificate is not deployed during installation on 8.1 media server or client host with dual stack configuration
- NetBackup 8.2 and RHEL 8 installation issue
- NetBackup 8.2 and SUSE 15 installation issue
- External certificate authority certificates supported by NetBackup 8.2
- SCCM and Chef deployment tools and documentation now available
- SORT information
- Smart Meter information
- General installation information
- NetBackup licenses
- Installing server software on UNIX systems
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Do not mix non-English versions of Windows and UNIX platforms unless master and media servers are NetBackup appliances
- NetBackup installations on environments that run different versions of UNIX-based operating systems
- Special installation guidelines for Solaris systems
- Special installation guidelines for UNIX clustered environments
- How the installation script works
- Installing NetBackup master server software on UNIX
- Installing NetBackup media server software on UNIX
- About pushing client software from a master server to clients
- Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux
- Installing server software on Windows systems
- Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters
- Requirements for Windows cluster installations and upgrades
- Performing local, remote, or clustered server installation on Windows systems
- Post-installation tasks for NetBackup cluster environments
- Verifying Windows cluster installations or upgrades
- Installing NetBackup servers silently on Windows systems
- About the administrative interfaces
- About the NetBackup web user interface
- About the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Administration Console
- Installing multiple versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- Removing earlier versions of the NetBackup Administration Console on Windows
- About the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing the NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- Installing NetBackup client software
- About NetBackup client installation
- About NetBackup client installation on Windows
- About NetBackup client installation on UNIX/Linux
- About UNIX and Linux client installation methods
- Installing UNIX clients locally
- Install of the UNIX and Linux client binaries with native installers
- About remote installation methods for UNIX/Linux clients
- Adding a UNIX/Linux client after initial server installation
- Upgrading clients after servers are upgraded
- Configuring NetBackup
- Upgrading NetBackup software
- Removing NetBackup server and client software
- About NetBackup server software removal on UNIX systems
- About NetBackup client software removal on UNIX and Linux systems
- Removing NetBackup from UNIX and Linux servers and clients
- About NetBackup server software removal on Windows systems
- Removing NetBackup server and client software from Windows servers, clusters, and clients
- Removing NetBackup LiveUpdate from Windows systems
- About removal of the Java Console state data from Windows servers and Windows clients
- Removing a clustered media server by migrating all data to a new media server
- Reference
- Generate a certificate on the inactive nodes of a clustered master server
- About the NetBackup answer file
- About RBAC bootstrapping
- NetBackup master server web server user and group creation
- About the NetBackup Java Runtime Environment
- Using NetApp disk arrays with Replication Director
- Security updates to the NetBackup database
- Size guidance for Veritas NetBackup master server and domain
Size guidance for Veritas NetBackup master server and domain
Veritas always recommends a comprehensive data protection assessment to determine the optimal configuration for a NetBackup master and NetBackup domain. The information that is shown is meant as a guideline, not as a hard limit. NetBackup can scale to higher job counts with appropriate resources.
Catalog size not to exceed 1-3TB
A key factor in the NetBackup catalog size is based on the data protection approach you plan to use. If your catalog exceeds 3TB please contact your Veritas Account SE for more information.
The catalog disk needs good read and write performance especially in large environments.
The number of devices in the EMM database should not exceed 1500.
The number of media servers should not exceed 100.
The number of jobs should not exceed 30,000 per 24 hours.
The number of processors affects how well the master server scales. Table: Sizing guidelines provides additional information.
Table: Sizing guidelines
Number of processors | Minimum memory requirement | Maximum number of jobs per day | Maximum number of media servers per master server |
|---|---|---|---|
4 | 16GB | 10,000 | 20 |
8 | 32GB | 20,000 | 50 |
16 | 64GB | 30,000 | 100 |
Note:
Additional recommendations about processor and memory requirements is available.
See Installation and upgrade requirements for UNIX and Linux.
See Installation and upgrade requirements for Windows and Windows clusters.