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[Veritas-bu] How many servers per NBU Policy? - Poll

2006-09-21 12:28:55
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How many servers per NBU Policy? - Poll
From: cjmanders at lbl.gov (Christopher Jay Manders)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:28:55 -0700

We also try to group together systems to minimize policy bloat.

Our biggest policies hold ~300+ clients each.

Windows_Desktops is by far the biggest, but with our Standard_Evening 
policy (Mac & UNIX) also getting up there.


HTH
-cjm




>I agree with Phil on this...we group clients by dataset and proximity to the
>nearest media server.  So, that number is high for things like Exchange
>backups where we have over 20 Exchange servers and low for other apps where
>we might only have 1 server.
>
>This is different from our old model where we had as many as 50 clients per
>policy just because they were all OS backups of the same kind of Windows
>box.
>
>--stuart
>
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>DrakeUnderkoffler
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>Not really a useful stat.  Everyone's NBU implementation is generally
>different
>based on lots of factors.  Clients may or may not be bundled into policies
>for business
>or security reasons, platform commonalities, and of course schedule windows.
>As a first stab,
>I usually bundle systems with similar services into the same policy.  But
>that almost
>always gets split up a bit.  Database backups generally tend to be one
>client per
>policy, but there are exceptions.  As usual, everyones millage may vary.
>
>Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
>Xinupro, LLC
>617-834-2352
>
>
>
>Koster, Phil wrote:
>  
>
>>We ran some numbers and have about 1.26 servers per policy. I was just
>>wondering where everyone else is in that regard.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Phil Koster
>>Network Administrator
>>City of Grand Rapids
>>Direct: 616-456-3136
>>Helpdesk: 456-3999
>>
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