Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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• Backup System
• Data Deduplication

NetBackup Appliance devices offer all the capabilities of the NetBackup platform in the format of high-performance and cost-effective hardware and software complexes. It's a single, ready-to-use solution for, and backup deduplications. Data Storage

How to build a backup system in a matter of days. Veritas NetBackup Appliance Solution Overview

An important building block when building a data center is a data backup and recovery system (RBM and HP, RBM). Previously, each information system was built with its own binding, now the approach is steadily leading, based on the application of a single enterprise tool for protecting data of different applications, on different platforms and even in different environments, whether physical, virtual or even cloud environments. The main dilemma facing architects is whether to build RBs independently from components of different suppliers or use pre-integrated solutions.

Veritas sees the most efficient, fast and at the same time the least risky option to build a boiler based on ready-made, pre-built units - software and hardware complexes (PAK) Veritas NetBackup Appliance. This approach allows you to obtain a deployed and turnkey installed RBB reference infrastructure in a matter of days and to obtain in the PAC design not only RBB management servers and capacity for storing backup copies of data, but also a set of pre-built policies covering the most typical and common application systems.

Veritas Family of Devices

Advantages of pre-built complexes

According to Veritas, pre-integrated specialized backup and recovery devices have significant advantages over the approach based on the use of self-designed and customizable element-by-element solutions based on general-purpose disk arrays (Build-Your-Own Media Servers).

With ready-made, specialized devices, organizations can significantly accelerate implementation, reduce risk, minimize planned and unplanned downtime, and improve staff efficiency and service levels. These benefits can be quantified and expressed as savings in both operating costs (OpEx) and capital costs (CapEx). According to Veritas research and accumulated experience in implementing RBs, replacing seven media servers with Veritas NetBackup Appliance PAC, a typical organization can save more than $100,000 in three years.

Savings in key areas

For many organizations, using a versatile backup and recovery device is the best solution for improving efficiency, performance, and significant cost savings. Veritas NetBackup Appliance delivers OpEx savings in four key areas:

1. Architecture preparation, compatibility check. sizing and acquisition

Often, the lost element of financial analysis is acquisition costs. Too often, these costs are not accounted for because they may go unnoticed or may be minimized. This is perceived as not having much influence. In fact, it takes a considerable amount of time to correctly evaluate and select a solution. An acquisition involves valuing, creating a BOM of materials, and ordering components from multiple vendors.

Using the Veritas NetBackup Appliance PAC optimizes and reduces the cost of:

• Evaluation - namely, architecture preparation, sizing, identification and selection of components for creating RBs (media servers, network and storage network components storage systems and for storing backups).
• Specification - Verifies that all components are compatible with each other. In addition, many organizations have corporate standards or require internal approvals to purchase servers and/or an operating system (OS).
• Order - You must place purchase orders and track components individually through multiple vendors. The use of PAC NetBackup Appliance offers certain advantages, reducing the number of vendors involved and significantly reducing the time spent on managing and coordinating various suppliers.

2. Installation/Integration

The area with the greatest savings is installation and integration. Installation is the initial reception of the system by means of physical rack mounting and connecting the system to the network and network connections. Integration is the configuration, fine-tuning, and optimization of a solution in a specific environment.

You can save on installation and integration by having one device and not having to build it yourself from multiple components. By using a pre-configured, fully integrated and performance-optimized NetBackup Appliance, the workload for some tasks or activities is significantly reduced and others are completely eliminated.

Using the Veritas NetBackup Appliance PAC optimizes and reduces the cost of:

• Hardware installation - Reduce the time required to install and test servers, networks, storage, internal components, including network and I/O adapters.
• Software installation - Reduce the time required to install and test the OS and NetBackup software.
• Configuration - Reduces the time required to configure hardware, software, and components.

In addition, the NetBackup Appliance significantly reduces the risk to the project during the installation and integration phase. Risk is associated with variability due to multiple components, interoperability issues, and multi-vendor work. NetBackup devices offer significant benefits because they are a single device with a complete configuration that can be unpacked, rack-mounted, run in less than an hour, and get guaranteed performance. Also, which is not an insignificant element of the RBM system, the NetBackup device has a pre-installed and pre-designed ON enterprise-level security Symantec DataCenter Security, which provides a high level of backup security and protection against. encryption viruses

3. Administration, patching, software and firmware updates

System administration of a solution is often the most expensive operating expense. This is directly related to the support of several different components independently: server, OS, backup software and backup storage.

With any integration solution, that is, assembled from different elements, there are always several components that will require firmware or software updates and patches. This is compounded by the fact that updates are not produced simultaneously by different OEMs or suppliers, and compatibility verification is often a very time consuming and risky task. Since all components of the NetBackup Appliance are "inside the box" and supported by Veritas, firmware and software updates have been fully tested and tested, compatibility issues fixed, and performance optimized.

Using the Veritas NetBackup Appliance PAC optimizes and reduces the cost of:

• Interface administration - Reduce the time required for simple changes to multiple interfaces that affect the OS, NetBackup software, server, and storage.
• Storage Pool Scalability - The time it takes to manage multiple RAID arrays (vendor-specific).
• Roll back patches and updates - Reduce maintenance time and verify compatibility with individual server components by operating systems and media server hardware.
• Interoperability Management - Reduce the time required to track and maintain interoperability between individual components.

4. Support/Maintenance

The great advantage of PAK NetBackup Appliance is the availability of a single supplier to which you can contact for any questions. In other words, a single point of service and support. In general, most OEMs provide adequate technical support. However, where this is not a trivial error, the problems of coordinating multiple vendors to determine the root cause, escalation, and resolution can be very time consuming and often disappointing.

Using the Veritas NetBackup Appliance PAC optimizes and reduces the cost of:

• Troubleshooting. An approach based on the use of self-assembled solutions often forces you to diagnose hardware and software errors yourself in order to contact the appropriate provider.
• Supplier Interaction: Reduce communication time with technical support by using a single vendor (OS, RBM software, server, network, and storage).
• Establishment of incident information through a centralized CallHome function.

Multi-level security mechanisms

In addition to reducing costs, protection from malicious code and viruses-encrypters has recently become an aspect of increasing importance. NetBackup Appliance devices contain a specially configured (hardening) information security OS, Linux an optimized version of the NetBackup and integrated multilevel security mechanisms to help ensure maximum protection against ransomware and other forms. cyber crime

Protection levels include:

• An intrusion protection system (IDS/IPS) based on Symantec Data Center Security (SDCS) built into all NetBackup Appliance devices. This solution starts automatically when the device is turned on and does not require maintenance. SDCS has built-in intrusion prevention and detection capabilities and works without agents. It does not require installation, configuration and specialized knowledge to get started. SDCS can prevent most ransomware attacks, provides very robust protection against disk encryption attacks, and can prevent data backups from being destroyed and encrypted.
• Encrypted data backup storage (MSDP pool). To minimize network, infrastructure, and storage load, NetBackup Appliance devices are equipped with built-in deduplication. When clients NetBackup back up data in the NetBackup Appliance, the data is placed in the Backup Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP). After deduplication, they can be encrypted for added security. The data is stored in encrypted form and can only be read using NetBackup. The MSDP pool encrypts to the 256-bit AES standard.
• Authentication users. Role-based access control (RBAC) is used to restrict access to device resources. Only users with an administrator role can configure and manage the NetBackup Appliance. Unlike many other backup products, NetBackup does not use regular user accounts to access backup images. NetBackup services run non-interactive accounts. These accounts are not used to verify e-mail and access external websites and are therefore known to be more secure.

NetBackup Appliance for September 2020 is available with version ON NetBackup 8.3. This version contains a number of important improvements to increase fault tolerance and disaster tolerance, DPC even in the face of emerging threats and cyber attacks. All this is achieved thanks to such functions as (non-exhaustive list):

• immutable copies
• Replication and mass disaster recovery of virtual machines with continuous data protection capabilities
• instant recovery of MSSQL DBMS,
• support for 7 virtualization technologies including containers,
• support for loads such as, MongoDB as well as support for OS and DBMS Russian production,
• support for deduplication backups in object storage and cloud storage of Russian providers,
• automation through RESTful API management and
• Role-based access control in WebUI to implement self-service capabilities.

Availability for all customer categories

A PAC-based approach from Veritas will address the full range of challenges. related to the construction of RBs and VD in the organization - Veritas offers solutions for small and remote offices and for large data centers, requiring high-performance backup with hard SLAs on backup and recovery windows, There are solutions for long-term storage of backups on site and solutions for optimal storage of backups in the cloud. Thus, if you approach the issue of building RBs and VD at the data center planning stage, then from finished, pre-built units based on PAK from Veritas, you can build a modular backup solution for organizing any size taking into account a variety of requirements, while doing this with possible financial benefit and with reduced risks. For detailed advice or questions on implementation and support, contact OCS Distribution. The company has many years of technical expertise on Veritas products, which it broadcasts through a wide pool of partner integrators to their projects throughout the country.