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 monitoring the performance of your appliance
This section helps you to identify the processes and parameters that affect the performance of your NetBackup appliance. To help understand how to use your appliance with the most optimized settings, it is important to first understand the various factors that affect its performance. Table: Factors affecting the performance of your NetBackup appliance lists all the core factors that can help to improve the performance of your appliance, when configured in the correct manner:
Table: Factors affecting the performance of your NetBackup appliance
Factor Type | Factors | Description |
|---|---|---|
Role configured | When considering the performance of an appliance you need to consider the following roles:
| The performance of your appliance greatly depends on the role it is configured as. For example, the performance of an appliance configured as all-in-one appliance will vary with the role of a media server or a master server. |
Network settings | When considering the performance of an appliance you need to consider the following network parameters:
| The network architecture in which an appliance is used and the network settings applied to an appliance affect the backup and restore operations. For example, implementing a Fibre Transport media server to backup data from SAN Clients provides one of the fastest methods to backup data, however it also presents very resource-intensive workload on the appliance |
Storage configurations | When considering the performance of an appliance you need to consider the following storage configurations:
| The quantity of a data backed up and the rate at which data is backed up is greatly dictated by the type of storage you select that the corresponding storage configurations made for your appliance. |