Symantec NetBackup 5000 Appliance

Symantec NetBackup 5000 Overview

Symantec NetBackup 5000, a scalable deduplication appliance solution for the enterprise that offers operational simplicity, effective utilization of bandwidth and storage, and high performance.

• Simple–Easy to install,configure, and use.
• Scalable–Modular capacity depending on data center needs (16TB to 96TB).
• Flexible–Source or target deduplication, a solution for the data center, remote office/branch office and virtual machine backups.
• Reliable– Telecommunication grade hardware.

Key Features:

• Up to 4.3 TB/Hour of aggregate throughput
• Integration with industry leading backup solution, Symantec NetBackup
• Bandwidth efficient, built-in disk to disk replication for disaster recovery and an alternative solution to tape
• RAID 6 configuration
• Redundant fans and power supply

With NetBackup 5000, the speed and success of backups increase while freeing up critical resources for your environment. Maximize on your organization's deduplication investment - hardware, software and support - with one reliable solution.

Symantec NetBackup 5000, powered by the NetBackup PureDisk™ deduplication technology, offers your organization a complete data deduplication solution that integrates with NetBackup and provides the critical features required to protect all your data. It reduces the size of backups by up to 50x with a deduplication engine that can be deployed for storage reduction, using integration with NetBackup, or for bandwidth reduction using PureDisk clients. An open and flexible architecture allows you to easily scale the size of the solution to meet the changing needs of your environment.

Solutions:

Integrated source and target deduplication

Symantec NetBackup 5000 offers both source and target side deduplication in a single integrated solution. Source deduplication is built-in into the backup agents that are directly deployed on the client machines. Source deduplication eliminates duplicate backup data before transmission, thus allowing for better utilization of bandwidth and storage. The NetBackup 5000 appliance can also be used as a deduplicated storage target for NetBackup backups. Once set up, the appliance simply appears as a disk pool within NetBackup and can be controlled via NetBackup policies.

Storage and bandwidth efficient backups

With built-in global deduplication technology, Symantec NetBackup 5000 globally eliminates the backup of duplicate data offering storage savings of up to 50x. This allows for cost efficient long term retention of data on disk, resulting in faster and more reliable backup and recovery of data. The source deduplication option eliminates duplicate backup data at the source making the backups more bandwidth efficient, as well.

Ease of operation

The Symantec NetBackup 5000 appliance comes preinstalled with all necessary hardware and software components, and can be set up within minutes for production use. Day to day monitoring of backup operations also requires minimal admin intervention, allowing for lower setup and operational costs.

Basic Architecture

Multiple use cases—Single solution

Symantec NetBackup 5000 is ideal for many use-cases including remote office backups, virtual machine backups, and data center backups. The built-in source side deduplication allows bandwidth efficient centralized backups of remote offices while reducing dependence on tape and unskilled IT personnel at the remote offices. In virtual environments, NetBackup 5000 offers flexible backup options including guest or image level backup for both VMware® and Hyper-V™ environments with the option of recovering single files or entire VMDK images. Lastly, the NetBackup 5000 can be used both as a source side and target side deduplication tool for data center backups allowing for bandwidth and storage efficient backup of core data center servers.

Scalable capacity and performance

Symantec NetBackup 5000 can be scaled up in increments of 16TB to a maximum usable dedupe capacity of 96TB which can easily allow protection for up to a petabyte of source data. Performance in the data center can be scaled by adding additional nodes and/or media servers.

Specifications:

* Requires 6 nodes

System Requirements:

System and platform support

NetBackup media server deduplication (target side deduplication)

This feature requires a minimum of NetBackup 6.5 media server with a deduplication plug-in running on one of the following operating systems - Microsoft® Windows, Red

• Any NetBackup client
• Any NetBackup application or database agent

Symantec NetBackup Client platform support

• Microsoft Windows - Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003
• Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• UNIX - IBM AIX (on Power 3, 4, 5), Solaris™ Operating System for SPARC, HP-UX on (PA-RISC and Itanium)
• Mac OS®

Symantec NetBackup application agent support

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft SQL 2005 Server
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server
• Microsoft SQL 2000 Server
• Oracle 10

Advanced backup and reporting across multiple backup

• Available with NetBackup OpsCenter Analytics

FAQ:

Why is Symantec offering appliances?

Symantec understands the shifting needs of the data center and offers the NetBackup appliances as an additional option for customers to leverage with their backup and deduplication strategy. To help data centers maximize on their investment of time and budget, Symantec has compiled the hardware, software and support research down to one inquiry.

The NetBackup appliances simplifies the deployment of Symantec's award-winning backup and recovery solution as well as the data deduplication solution, ideal for customers looking for turnkey solutions for their organization. The appliances enable efficient, storage-optimized data protection for the data center, remote office and virtual environments.

What technology is included with the NetBackup 5000?

The deduplication technology that comes with the NetBackup 5000 appliance is not new, it is based on time tested Symantec NetBackup PureDisk, a product that has been on the market for over 8 years. As a deduplication solution, the appliance integrates with the industry leading data protection solution, Symantec NetBackup, to provide a complete backup solution for customers.

How much capacity does the NetBackup 5000 provide?

The appliance has a flexible and scalable architecture, allowing customers to start with 16 TB of usable deduplication capacity and can protect up to 96 TB of global deduplication capacity per deployment.

Is the NetBackup 5000 just a target deduplication appliance?

No, NetBackup 5000 can be used for both source and target side deduplication. Source deduplication is built-in into the backup agents that are directly deployed on the client machines. As a deduplicated storage target for NetBackup backups, the appliance appears as a disk pool within NetBackup and can be controlled via NetBackup policies.

How easy is it really to install and use the NetBackup 5000?

The NetBackup 5000 appliance comes preinstalled with all necessary hardware and software components and can be set up within minutes for products use. To hear more on the ease of install, configure and use of the appliance, listen in on this Symantec Backup Buzz podcast, where a few experienced sales engineers talk about their deployment experiences with the NetBackup 5000.

Who provides support for the NetBackup appliances?

Symantec provides end-to-end support for the NetBackup appliances. The customer only has to call in to one phone number no matter what the issue is with the appliance, hardware or software.

Documentation:

Download the Symantec NetBackup 5000 Appliance Datasheet (PDF).