Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
- Introducing the NetBackup media server deduplication option
- Planning your deployment
- About MSDP storage and connectivity requirements
- About NetBackup media server deduplication
- About NetBackup Client Direct deduplication
- About MSDP remote office client deduplication
- About MSDP performance
- MSDP deployment best practices
- Provisioning the storage
- Licensing deduplication
- Configuring deduplication
- Configuring the Deduplication Multi-Threaded Agent behavior
- Configuring the MSDP fingerprint cache behavior
- Configuring MSDP fingerprint cache seeding on the storage server
- Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- Configuring a disk pool for deduplication
- Configuring a Media Server Deduplication Pool storage unit
- About MSDP optimized duplication within the same domain
- Configuring MSDP optimized duplication within the same NetBackup domain
- Configuring MSDP replication to a different NetBackup domain
- Creating a storage lifecycle policy
- Resilient Network properties
- Editing the MSDP pd.conf file
- About protecting the MSDP catalog
- Configuring an MSDP catalog backup
- Monitoring deduplication activity
- Managing deduplication
- Managing MSDP servers
- Managing NetBackup Deduplication Engine credentials
- Managing Media Server Deduplication Pools
- Changing a Media Server Deduplication Pool properties
- Configuring MSDP data integrity checking behavior
- About MSDP storage rebasing
- Managing MSDP servers
- Recovering MSDP
- Replacing MSDP hosts
- Uninstalling MSDP
- Deduplication architecture
- Troubleshooting
- About unified logging
- About legacy logging
- Troubleshooting MSDP installation issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP configuration issues
- Troubleshooting MSDP operational issues
- Appendix A. Migrating to MSDP storage
- Appendix B. NetBackup appliance deduplication
Configuring a storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
Configure in this context means to configure a NetBackup media server as a storage server for a
.See About MSDP storage servers.
The type of storage. | Select for the type of disk storage. |
The credentials for the deduplication engine. | |
The storage paths. | |
The network interface. | |
The load balancing servers, if any. |
When you configure the storage server, the wizard also lets you create a disk pool and storage unit.
Prerequisite | For a 96-TB , you must create the required directories before you configure the storage server. |
To configure a NetBackup storage server for a Media Server Deduplication Pool
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, select either NetBackup Management or Media and Device Management.
- In the right pane, click Configure Disk Storage Servers.
The Storage Server Configuration Wizard Welcome panel appears.
- On the Welcome panel, select Media Server Deduplication Pool from the drop-down menu.
The types of storage servers that you can configure depend on the options for which you are licensed.
The following is an example of the wizard panel:
After you select Media Server Deduplication Pool, click Next. The Add Storage Server wizard panel appears.
- On the Add Storage Server panel, select or enter the appropriate information.
The following is an example of the wizard panel: