Hi All,

I am in  the process of building a new NW data Zone. The plan is to Integrate 
NW 7.6.4.1 with Avamar so that we could have global de-dupe for all backup 
clients.

I plan to have the NW Server running on a Solaris 10 (Global zone box) but for 
the Storage Node I plan to use 4 solaris local zone servers. These local zone 
servers will be configured as storage node and will have an AFTD device each 
configured for storing the Avamar hash ID ( We plan to distribute the clients 
equally to all 4 SN ) but before I start I had a couple of questions that I 
would like to get clarified.

1) Somewhere in the NW 7.6 installation guide I seen to have read that we can 
only configure a Dedicated Storage node on a solaris local zone server. Is this 
true and is there any restrictions preventing me from having a regular SN on a 
local zone server?

2) Is there any limit/best practise in the no of AFTD devices that I can create 
for storing the hash ID. I plan to create 4 AFTD devices, one configured under 
each SN. The idea is to share the clients backup to all the 4 SN equally, 
keeping the load on the SN distributed equally.



Looking forward to some suggestions and tips...

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