Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (4.0)
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 Primary 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 primary 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 Primary 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
  6.  
    Index

A

about
media server role, About the Media Server role
NetBackup appliances, About NetBackup appliances
NetBackup documentation, About the NetBackup appliance documentation
primary server role, About the Primary Server role
about the guide, About this guide
architecture
best practice, Architecture

B

back recording template, Record your backup requirements
capacity measuring, Capacity measuring worksheet
best practice
architecture, Architecture
catalog, NetBackup Catalog Backup
checklist, Best practices checklist
generic, Generic best practices
job performance, Job performance
notification settings, About Notification settings
SLP, Patching with the SLP (storage lifecycle policies)
VMware, VMware backups using appliances

C

calculate basic stream count, Calculating the basic stream count for backups
capacity measuring
back recording template, Capacity measuring worksheet
capacity planning checklist, Checklist for Capacity planning
catalog
best practice, NetBackup Catalog Backup

D

deduplication best practice, About implementing deduplication solutions
DB2 backups, DB2
generic recommendations, General recommendations
Lotus Notes backups, Lotus Notes
Microsoft SQL backups, Microsoft SQL
Oracle backups, Oracle
Sybase backups, Sybase
documentation, About the NetBackup appliance documentation

E

enterprises use cases, Addressing use cases of backup systems for enterprises

H

How much data to backup?, How much data do you want to back up?

I

intended audience, About the intended audience
IPMI configuration
about, About IPMI configuration

J

job performance
best practice, Job performance

M

maintenance sites, References to maintenance sites
media server role, About the Media Server role
move dialog
storage, Move dialog
move partition
NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu, Moving a partition using the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu
move storage partition
improved performance, About moving a storage partition for better performance

N

NetBackup
about documentation for, About the NetBackup appliance documentation
network considerations
fibre channel, About Fibre Channel connectivity
introduction, About network considerations
SAN zone, About SAN zone configurations
validate network bandwidth, Validating network bandwidth

O

optimize network, Optimize network settings and improve performance
jumbo frame, Jumbo frame implementation for increased MTU
network bonding, Network bonding
SAN fibre channel, SAN Fibre Channel setup
VMware VADP, VMware VADP

P

performance monitor
introduction, About monitoring the performance of your appliance
matrix, Performance Monitoring matrix
performance monitoring
generic commands, Other Performance Monitoring commands
NetBackup client, NetBackup Client performance
primary server
about role, About the Primary Server role

R

remote or branch office use cases, Addressing use cases of backup systems for remote or branch offices
role
about media server, About the Media Server role
about primary server, About the Primary Server role
role-based performance, Role-based configuration as a factor affecting performance
media server, What affects the performance of a media server (MSDP)?
primary server, What affects the performance of a Primary Server?

S

select media server, Selecting a media server
select new appliance, Selecting new appliances
select primary server, Selecting a primary server
shared storage pool, About configuring a shared storage pool
SLP
best practice, Patching with the SLP (storage lifecycle policies)
Solution introduction
High Availability, About NetBackup 53xx High Availability solution
storage configuration
about, About storage configuration
storage partition
moving, Moving a partition

T

template
application server information, Template to record application server information
computer system information, Template to record computer system information
database information, Template to record database information
tuning procedures
introduction, About tuning procedures and performance monitoring

V

validate disk performance
nbperfchk, Using nbperfchk to validate disk performance on NetBackup Appliances
VMware
best practice, VMware backups using appliances

W

What is the retention period?, What is the retention period?
What to backup?, What do you want to backup?
When to backup?, When should the backup take place?