Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Performance and Tuning Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Purpose of the guide
    2.  
      Disclaimer
  2. About OpsCenter configuration
    1.  
      OpsCenter Server configuration
    2. About OpsCenter Server on a virtual machine
      1.  
        Physical versus virtual configuration for OpsCenter Server
      2.  
        Guidelines on the OpsCenter VM parameters
      3.  
        About VM settings and % gains during OpsCenter report generation
    3.  
      OpsCenter database configuration
    4.  
      OpsCenter services
  3. About OpsCenter performance and tuning
    1.  
      Sizing considerations
    2.  
      Sizing guidelines
    3. About tuning OpsCenter for increased performance
      1.  
        About performance tuning guidelines
      2.  
        About adding NetBackup Master Servers to OpsCenter
      3.  
        About using a web browser to access OpsCenter
      4. About saving the OpsCenter log files on a different drive
        1.  
          Checking the debug level of logs
        2.  
          Saving the log files to a different location on Windows
        3.  
          Saving the log files to a different location on UNIX
      5. About adjusting the heap size or cache size for OpsCenter services
        1.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter server service
        2.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter web server service
        3.  
          Adjusting the default heap size for the OpsCenter Agent service
        4.  
          Adjusting the OpsCenter database service cache size
      6. About OpsCenter database defragmentation
        1.  
          Checking the disk fragment count
        2.  
          About allocating more memory before database defragmentation
        3.  
          Defragmenting the OpsCenter database
      7.  
        About purging data periodically
    4. Moving OpsCenter server to a different computer
      1.  
        About saving the files before moving the OpsCenter Server
      2.  
        Moving OpsCenter server because of constraints in upgrade
      3.  
        Moving OpsCenter server because of issues in the existing setup
  4. OpsCenter best practices
    1.  
      Network configuration best practices
    2. Installation and upgrade best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid during installation and upgrade
    3. OpsCenter database best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid while you use OpsCenter database
    4. Backup products best practices
      1.  
        Things to avoid while you collect data from backup products
    5.  
      OpsCenter Server best practices
    6.  
      OpsCenter reporting best practices
    7.  
      Best practices for antivirus configuration on Windows

About allocating more memory before database defragmentation

The database defragmentation process may require more memory to run successfully. This section provides the procedure to allocate more memory to the database cache using the -ch option before database defragmentation.

Note:

The information that is published in this section is based on the tests that were performed in Veritas Lab in a controlled environment with expert users. These can only be used as guidelines and should not be used as 100% accurate benchmarks.

Note:

The database defragmentation process requires the available disk space to be double the current database size.

To allocate more memory to database cache

  1. Backup the existing OpsCenter database.
  2. Modify the memory settings to allocate more memory to the database cache.

    The following table shows an example scenario where the OpsCenter database size is 48 GB. It lists the original memory settings that you need to modify to the new settings before database defragmentation so that there are no performance issues during the defragmentation.

    Example scenario: OpsCenter database size = 48 GB

    Original memory settings

    Modified memory settings (to allocate more memory to database cache)

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter database process = 24 GB

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter database process = 39 GB

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter GUI process = 4 GB

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter GUI process = 1 GB

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter Server process = 12 GB

    Memory allocated for the OpsCenter Server process = 1 GB

    Memory allocated for the Operating System = 8 GB

    Memory allocated for the Operating System = 8 GB

  3. Restart OpsCenter services.
  4. Defragment the OpsCenter database.

    See Defragmenting the OpsCenter database.

  5. Revert to the original memory settings.