Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Guide
- About this Guide
- Section I. Capacity planning
- Analyzing your backup requirements
- Designing your backup system
- Section II. Best Practices
- Section III. Performance tuning
- Section IV. Quick reference to Capacity planning and Performance tuning
- Index
About storage configuration
The NetBackup Appliance Web Console enables you to manage the storage configuration. You can use the Manage > Storage pane to manage the storage space.
The NetBackup 52xx appliances are available for use with up to four storage shelves. The storage shelves provide you with additional disk storage space. After you have physically connected the storage shelves, use the NetBackup Appliance Web Console to manage the storage space.
The NetBackup 53xx appliance must be connected to one Primary Storage Shelf. The storage space can be expanded by using up to five Expansion Storage Shelves. After you have physically connected the Expansion Storage Shelf, use the NetBackup Appliance Web Console to manage the storage space.
Note:
The 53xx appliance (base unit) does not have internal disk space available for backups or storage. It only stores the OS, logs, checkpoints etc. The space available from the Primary Storage Shelf and the Expansion Storage Shelf can be used for backups.
If you have a NetBackup 5330 appliance or a NetBackup 5340 appliance with an Expansion Storage Shelf, the following restrictions apply:
Moving an Expansion Storage Shelf or disks from one 5330 appliance to another 5330 appliance is not supported.
Moving an Expansion Storage Shelf or disks from one 5340 appliance to another 5340 appliance is not supported.
Moving an Expansion Storage Shelf or disks from one 5330 appliance to a 5340 appliance is not supported.
Moving an Expansion Storage Shelf or disks from one 5340 appliance to a 5330 appliance is not supported.
Moving disk drives within an Expansion Storage Shelf is not supported.
Figure: NetBackup 52xx Appliance storage space provides a bird's-eye view of how storage space is configured within your 52xx appliance.
Figure: NetBackup 5330 Appliance storage space provides a bird's-eye view of how storage space is configured within your 5330 appliance.
Figure: NetBackup 5340 Appliance storage space provides a bird's-eye view of how storage space is configured within your 5340 appliance.
Figure: Storage Operations lists the tasks that you can perform on the appliance storage space.
All the tasks that can be performed on the NetBackup Appliance Web Console can also be performed by using the Manage > Storage shell menu.
For more information about Main > Manage > Storage commands, refer to NetBackup™ Appliance Command Reference Guide.