Symantec NetBackup

Symantec NetBackup Overview

As the established market leader in data protection, Symantec NetBackup 7 offers unparalleled data protection for Next Generation Data Centers. The NetBackup 7 Platform provides the ability to protect completely, store efficiently, recover anywhere, find easily and manage centrally.

The Symantec NetBackup Platform simplifies the protection of your information-driven enterprise by automating advanced technologies and standardizing operations across applications, platforms, and virtual environments. That means being able to protect completely, store efficiently, recover anywhere, and manage centrally across heterogeneous operating systems and storage hardware including tape and disk. Integrated deduplication, replication, and patent-pending virtual machine protection helps customers improve storage efficiency, infrastructure use, and recovery times. A single console offers multi-site monitoring, analytics, and reporting, which allows customers to standardize operations and risk management. Used by companies around the world, Symantec NetBackup easily scales to protect the largest UNIX, Windows®, and Linux® environments.

The NetBackup Platform provides the ability to protect completely,
store efficiently, recover anywhere, and manage centrally.

The NetBackup Platform consists of the following Symantec products: NetBackup, NetBackup RealTime, OpsCenter Analytics, and Enterprise Vault™.

Product highlights:

• Heterogeneous data protection—Protection across heterogeneous operating systems, applications, hypervisors, and both disk and tape architectures
• Centralized management—Increase efficiencies by managing all data protection technologies and multiple NetBackup servers and domains from one location
• Source and target data deduplication—Easily deploy and manage deduplication wherever needed, from remote offices to the data center
• Deep integration with storage appliances—The NetBackup OpenStorage API enables centralized management of deduplication and replication
• Complete and simple virtual machine protection—Award-winning backup and recovery for VMware and Microsoft® Hyper-V environments
• Fast, granular recovery of data from applications and hypervisors—Quickly restore files, emails and other granular items from Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint®, and Active Directory® and for hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper-V
• Highly scalable—Benefit from a flexible, three-tiered architecture that scales with the needs of today’s growing data center
• Effective disaster recovery—Fully automated and integrated system recovery with NetBackup Bare Metal Restore™, built-in replication, and offsite tape management
• Comprehensive data security—Flexible encryption technologies for maximum data security while in transit or in media

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Integrated source and target based deduplication.
• Award winning , comprehensive data protection for virtual environments.
• Advanced monitoring and reporting across domains.
• Faster disaster recovery for the global environments.

Key Benefits:

• Reduce costs and complexity by deploying native, integrated deduplication, at the source, target or on deduplication appliances.
• Enabling more efficient backups and faster restores of virtual environments through deep hypervisor integration.
• Manage both physical and virtual servers and multiple backup and recovery products through one console.
• Ensure rapid and easy recovery of critical applications and backup data.

New Features:

Integrated Deduplication
Includes native deduplication within the NetBackup client and allows customers to increase the speed of backups in remote offices, the data center, and virtual environments.

• Built-in client-side deduplication improves physical & virtual backups speeds by up to 10x
• Software-based deduplication reduces costs by up to 70% versus appliance approaches
• Integrated client and target-side deduplication provides more coverage with fewer tools
• Manage and improve the performance of 3rd party deduplication appliances using OpenStorage

Simple & Comprehensive Data Protection for Virtual Environments
Simplifies virtual server data protection by standardizing backup of Hyper-V and VMware.

• New VMware data protection improves speed by 50% and reduces storage by up to 40%
• Only NetBackup offers instant file recovery from any type of VMware or Hyper-V backup
• Complete deduplication across all virtual and physical systems regardless of backup method
• No backup or recovery compromises for customers who backup directly to tape

Faster Disaster Recovery with Global Data Protection
Ensure rapid and easy recovery of critical applications and backup data at other sites with integrated replication features.

• Recover terabytes of application data in seconds from anywhere at any point-in-time
• Efficiently manage and move up to 80% less data between different sites with optimized replication
• Unified analytics and reporting reduces recovery risk across locations and backup products

Improved Management Console and Usability
Provides centralized console for integrated reporting, monitoring, alerting and management for multiple backup and archive domains.

• Better predict backup and archiving storage consumption
• Analyze risk and quantify exposure and assess the recoverability of clients and applications
• Easily track backup success rates by backup application across the entire organization

Expanded Support for Windows Server and Applications

• NetBackup 7 fully supports Windows 2008 R2, Vista/XP/Windows 7, and Storage Server 2008
• NetBackup 7 offers full backup and recovery support for Exchange 2010 DAG environments and Exchange 2003

System Requirements:

Server - Supported UNIX Operating Systems

• HP-UX
• Sun Solaris
• IBM AIX

Server - Supported Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

• Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2

Server - Supported Linux Operating Systems

• Red Hat
• SUSE
• Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Asianux/RedFlag

Client - Supported UNIX Operating Systems

• HP-UX
• Sun Solaris
• IBM AIX

Client - Supported Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

• Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2
• Vista/XP/Windows 7
• Storage Server 2003/2008

Client - Supported Linux Operating Systems

• Red Hat
• SUSE
• Novell OES Linux
• Asianux/RedFlag
• Debian/CentOS/Ubuntu

Client - Other Supported Operating Systems

• Macintosh - OS X
• HP OpenVMS
• FreeBSD
• Novell NetWare

Supported Hypervisors
There are numerous possible combinations of hypervisors that may occur; this list is provided as a general supported list of hypervisors for NetBackup.

• HP-UX Integrity VM
• IBM VIO Server
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Solaris Zones
• Solaris Logical Domains
• VMware ESX
• VMware vSphere

Screenshots:

Main NetBackup Administrative Console
The main NetBackup administrative console allows you to configure, manage, and monitor all of your most important backup activities.

Symantec OpsCenter
The OpsCenter homepage illustrates the overall health of the NetBackup environment. Quick summary reports, such as number of jobs that were successful/failed, or number of jobs that are complete, currently running, or queued, can be shown for all your master servers or individual ones for the last 24, 48, or 72 hours.

NBU 7 Dedupe Media Server
Because it’s built-in, NetBackup 7 deduplication features are easy to use, including configuring storage.

NBU7 Dedupe Zoomout
NetBackup 7 includes built-in deduplication which is managed directly from the main console. This screenshot shows completed deduplication jobs and rates in a virtual environment (VMware)

NetBackup RealTime CDP Timeline
NetBackup RealTime provides an easy way to achieve any point in time recovery from a continuous data protection (CDP) timeline.

NetBackup Realtime Home Showing Replication
Remote disk mirror replication to a destination farther away is also possible for applications like Microsoft Exchange and Oracle from a single NetBackup RealTime server.

NBU7 Active License Features
NetBackup makes it easy to quickly see which license features are enabled.

NetBackup Editions Comparison:

Flexible deployment offerings for environments of all sizes and levels of sophistication

NetBackup is available in three editions to support organizations ranging from SMBs to large enterprises

Documentation:

Download the Symantec NetBackup Datasheet (PDF).