[Veritas-bu] Master / Media server considerations

Hi all,

We are in the process of purchasing a capacity based license for Netbackup along with 4 5020's and the Dedup option. We plan on putting 2 5020's a two different data centers we have and backing up locally and then replicating that data between the sites.

We will have some help from a Symantec partner but I wanted to get some hands on advice from anyone willing to give it on determining the number of media servers to have at each of those two data centers initially. We have a mix of SAP on Oracle, Oracle, SQL Server, Lotus Notes, CIFS data, NFS, XEN and VMWare for virtualization. Most of the application data will be on a netapp filer of some sort, most local storage is just for os booting.

We are coming from a completely disparate backup solution in that there were parts that backed up Oracle and Notes, parts for SQL Server, parts for CIFS, etc. We are also moving away from tape. We have an Oracle SL500 as on of the current media solutions, 3 modules, 10 drives but hoping not to use that in the new Netbackup environment.

What are the considerations one needs to take into account when deciding on the number and type of media servers in a mid-sized environment like ours?

thanks, Kevin

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