Symantec NetBackup 5220 Appliance Wins Bronze!
Symantec NetBackup 5220 appliance receives Storage magazines/SearchStorage.com 2011 Product of the Year - Bronze Award.
NetBackup 5220 appliance is an enterprise backup appliance that offers deduplication for physical and virtual systems. It can be set-up as a media server, master server or both. The NetBackup 5220 appliance can act as an all-in-one backup server or can scale out for environments that require multiple backup media servers. Read more
NetBackup Appliances
Symantec understands the shifting needs of the data center and offers the NetBackup appliances as an additional option for customers to simplify deployment and maintenance of marketing-leading NetBackup.
The NetBackup appliances are ideal for customers looking for turnkey solutions for their organization. The appliances enable efficient, storage-optimized data protection for the data center, remote office and virtual environments.
- Simple–Easy to install, configure, and use.
- Scalable–Modular capacity depending on data center needs.
- Flexible–Source or target deduplication, a solution for the data center, remote office/branch office and virtual machine backups.
- Reliable–enterprise-class hardware and software.
Key Features
The NetBackup appliances share many common features:- Installs in minutes
- Built-in client and target deduplication
- Inline and post-process deduplication
- Optimized synthetic backup to minimize data movement
- Bandwidth efficient, built-in disk to disk replication for disaster recovery and an alternative solution to tape based vaulting
- Tape support for long term data retention
- Hardware monitoring with call home feature
"Symantec NetBackup 5200 appliances …. were literally plug and play - plug them in, set the address, and point them toward the master server'"
Brad Craig, Director of IT
Charlotte Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Associates
Product Families
Symantec's NetBackup Appliance family consists of two series:- NetBackup 5200 series - a single-vendor enterprise backup appliance with deduplication that can be deployed as a master server, media server, or both for a NetBackup domain.
- NetBackup 5000 series - a content aware, scalable global deduplication appliance for the enterprise.
Ease of Installation
NetBackup appliances come preinstalled with all necessary hardware and software components and can be set up within minutes.Global Service and Support
Symantec provides end-to-end support for the NetBackup appliances. The customer only has to call one phone number no matter what the issue is with the appliance, hardware or software, Symantec covers it all.
NetBackup 5200 Series
Symantec NetBackup 5200 series is an extension of the market share leader NetBackup software in an easy to use appliance form factor.
- Suitable for environments of any size-starting at 4TB and expandable up to 36TB of useable disk, it is ideal for remote offices, regional offices, and enterprise data centers.
- Multiple functional roles-can be deployed as master server, media server or both for a NetBackup environment.
- Comprehensive–Backup solution with built-in deduplication. Symantec provides the software, hardware, services and support.
- Content-aware deduplication-reduces the size of backups by up to 50 times and network bandwidth utilization by up to 99 percent, so you can backup and replicate faster.
- Flexible deduplication options-Deduplication at source, media server, or target; inline or post-process.
- Simple–Pre-installed with award winning NetBackup 7 along with 32TB of usable deduplication capacity for virtual and physical environments.
- Easily fits into existing NetBackup environments-easily expand or refresh existing NetBackup environments, no separate management required.
- Support for all major platforms and applications-platform and application support same as core NetBackup software.
- Operational simplicity-Set up in a matter of minutes with pre-installed NetBackup.
- Investment protection-pay once for deduplication and replicate securely to any number of targets.
- Reliable–Hardware built to enterprise standards, software based on 16 years of industry tested, customer validated, backup technology.
Key Features
- Up to 20.4 TB/Hour of aggregate throughput
- Built-in client and media server deduplication
- Support for SAN Clients
- Optimized synthetic backup to minimize data movement
- Auto image replication to simplify recovery at DR sites
- Tape support for long term data retention
- Inline and post process deduplication
- Hardware monitoring with call home feature
Industry leading NetBackup software
The NetBackup 5200 series appliances comes pre-installed with NetBackup 7 to provide a complete and integrated backup and deduplication solution for customers.Scalable Architecture
The NetBackup 5200 series appliances have a flexible and scalable architecture and can be deployed as an all-in-one backup server with deduplication or in a configuration of multiple backup appliances (media servers) that can move 100s of TB of data per day. Flexible network connectivity options allow these appliances to be deployed to meet remote office, virtual server, or data center data protection needs. In addition, NetBackup appliances can be used in conjunction with NetBackup software deployments on other servers to minimize vendor hardware lock-in.End-to-End Deduplication
The NetBackup 5200 series is the only single-vendor enterprise backup appliances that provides end-to-end deduplication, both source and target side deduplication. NetBackup 5200 series appliances can be combined with the NetBackup 5000 series appliances within a single deployment to accommodate up to 192TB of end-to-end global deduplication.The NetBackup 5200 series enables you to easily build up and deploy your organization's backup and deduplication strategy for effective information management. Leverage this simple solution in your NetBackup environment to maximize IT staff time, operations and storage investment.
NetBackup 5000 Series
The Symantec NetBackup™ 5000 series, offers scalable deduplication appliance solutions for the enterprise that provides operational simplicity, effective utilization of bandwidth and storage, and high performance.
- Simple-Easy to install, configure, and use.
- Scalable-Modular capacity depending on data center needs (32 TB up to 192 TB).
- Flexible-Source and target deduplication, a solution for the data center, remote office/branch office and virtual machine backups.
- Reliable-enterprise class hardware.
Key Features
- Up to 13.4 TB/Hour of aggregate throughput
- Integration with the market leading data protection solutions; Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Backup Exec
- Bandwidth efficient, built-in replication for disaster recovery
- Content aware deduplication and special stream handlers for VMware, Hyper-V and NDMP
- High availability: RAID 6 configuration, and redundant fans and power supply
With the NetBackup 5000 series, the speed and success of backups increase while freeing up critical resources for your environment. Minimize the effort needed to deploy and manage your deduplication investment in hardware, software and support, with one reliable solution.
Integration with NetBackup
As a deduplication solution, the NetBackup 5000 series appliances integrates with the industry leading data protection solution, Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec, to provide a complete backup solution for customers.Scalable Architecture
The NetBackup 5000 series appliances has a flexible and scalable architecture, allowing customers to start with 32 TB of usable deduplication capacity and protect up to 192 TB of global deduplication capacity per deployment. The NetBackup 5020 model comes with 32 TB of usable deduplication capacity. Additional NetBackup 5020 appliances can be combined within a single deployment in order to accommodate whatever capacity needs a customer may have.End-to-End Global Deduplication
The NetBackup 5000 series can be used for both source and target side deduplication. Source deduplication is built-in into the backup agents that are directly deployed on the client machines. As a deduplicated storage target for NetBackup or Backup Exec backups, the NetBackup 5000 series appliances appears as a disk pool and can be controlled via backup policies.Customer Quote
"NetBackup 5000 helped us achieve an 85-90 percent data reduction through its deduplication technology. It has not only removed the need to perform local tape backups in our remote offices, but it has also improved our overall backup success factor. We have benefitted from standardizing on Symantec for our backup and recovery platform that we run globally, and adding the NetBackup 5000 appliance to our environment was another step in achieving our goal of consolidated backups." -Albert Chin, Network Engineer with PerkinElmer, Inc.Dedupe Everywhere with NetBackup 7
Simplify Data Center transformation and modernization
Deduplication is rapidly becoming the cornerstone for managing the unprecedented data growth in traditional, virtualized as well as hybrid enterprise environments. The adoption rate for deduplication is only accelerating and the question facing many IT organizations today: Can I have a cost effective and scalable deduplication solution that can streamline my existing data protection, be easily and transparently deployed, evolve with my data centers, and help to reduce and control both CAPEX and OPEX costs.Enterprise class "end-to-end" global deduplication in a single data protection platform
Intelligent NetBackup Deduplication with V-Ray gives you the choice to simply and easily deploy enterprise-class, highly scalable, "end-to-end" global deduplication with nothing more than a simple 'click-of-mouse.' NetBackup can easily consolidate, manage and affordably fit into any enterprise global deployment plan by offering the unique, seamlessly integrated, single vendor, "one-stop-solution" for virtual and physical server data protection and deduplication. Leveraging a single, proven, enterprise-class data protection platform, as your data center continually evolves with virtualization, new applications, and the cloud; NetBackup Deduplication offers the flexibility to change and evolve without cost penalties.
NetBackup Deduplication – Easily optimize and modernize Data Centers to reduce costs
- Seamless integration with NetBackup 7 and highly scalable NetBackup Appliances
- Single-click client and media server intelligent deduplication easily targets scalable NetBackup Appliances
- Enterprise-class data protection leverages existing NetBackup skills, thereby reducing OPEX
- Single data protection platform to manage data growth in traditional, virtualized and hybrid environments
- Global data protection and consolidation with OpsCenter single-pane data management console
- Simplified backup infrastructure and adjournment of costly network upgrades with deduplication at the source
- Reduction in data movement up to 99% for faster backups, reduced backup windows and efficient disaster recovery readiness
Simple Software Model – Enterprise Class, proven, affordable
- Simple Capacity based license model offers unlimited use of Enterprise NetBackup agents
- One-time perpetual license is transferrable to new appliances, eliminating the need to buy software license during hardware refresh
- Unlimited use and no cost for Replication: Global consolidation and improved disaster recovery readiness at lower TCO
- Unlimited use at no cost for media server load balancing for deduplication processing: Increase your deduplication performance
- Unlimited use at no cost for encryption: Ensure security for in-transit and at-rest backup data
- Highly scalable and affordable “pay-as-you-grow” licensing for better OPEX management, eliminate costly sizing mistakes
What's New?
"The addition of the NetBackup 5220 appliance to Symantec's portfolio of PBBA systems positions Symantec extremely well for future growth in this burgeoning market. Symantec's emphasis on ease of deployment, scalability, flexibility, and the ability to bridge existing infrastructure and processes ….."
Read More of the IDC Product Flash: Symantec Refines Its Appliance Offerings with Its NetBackup 5220 Purpose-Built Backup Appliance
Read More of the IDC Product Flash: Symantec Refines Its Appliance Offerings with Its NetBackup 5220 Purpose-Built Backup Appliance
"Symantec’s initial focus with its appliance strategy was to deliver scalable deduplication via its NetBackup 5000 Series. In addition, the company introduced an all-in-one NetBackup 5200 appliance based on NetBackup 7. Symantec has extended the NetBackup 5200 Series appliance with the NetBackup 5220, expanding storage capacity and connectivity options."
Read More of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Product Brief: Symantec Extends Appliance Series with NetBackup 5220
Read More of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Product Brief: Symantec Extends Appliance Series with NetBackup 5220
"NetBackup appliances offer an effective solution for protecting VMware environments by reducing the size of backup data within and across virtual machines-using agents in the virtual machines or using off-host backups via NetBackup's integration with VMware vStorage™ application programming interface (API). The NetBackup appliances eliminate traditional backup bottlenecks…"
Read More of Optimized Data Protection for VMware Environments with NetBackup Appliances.
Read More of Optimized Data Protection for VMware Environments with NetBackup Appliances.
NetBackup 5200 Appliances
- NetBackup 5220 data sheet.
- Watch an episode of Symantec Connect featuring a product overview of the NetBackup 5220 appliance.
NetBackup 5000 Appliances
- NetBackup 5020 data sheet.
- Watch an episode of Symantec Connect featuring a product overview of the NetBackup 5000 appliance.
- To learn more about how you can easily implement deduplication into your environment, read the Symantec NetBackup™ 5000 Series Deduplication Appliances white paper.
Learn
- Key Considerations in Modernizing Your Backup and Deduplication Solutions: Read the white paper
- Watch the on-demand webcast Simplifying Backup and Recovery with NetBackup Appliances.
- For a live technical deep dive on NetBackup Appliances, register to learn more.
- Watch this NetBackup 5220 demonstration on how easy it is to setup and start performing backups and restores. watch video.
Customer Success
Deduplicate
- For more information on deduplication by Symantec, see our Deduplication Everywhere page.
Additional Information
- For a quick storage cost and needs analysis on your environment with and without NetBackup Deduplication, try the Deduplication Calculator.
- For information on NetBackup Appliances Support Services, view the data sheet
- To read more on backup and archiving by Symantec as heard by the NetBackup and NetBackup appliance user community, visit Symantec Connect.
NetBackup Appliances: Health Alliance Plan and Excelitas
Dan Trim of Health Alliance Plan and Rob Ersoni of Excelitas discuss their successful deployments of Symatnec NetBackup Appliances.
"By achieving up to 90 percent deduplication rates with Symantec NetBackup 7 software and Symantec NetBackup 5000 appliances, we project we'll save more than $400,000 over the next three years on backup hardware and media."
–Albert Chin, Network Engineer, PerkinElmer, Inc.
"Our deduplication rate for backups is around 40 percent on average. Being able to pack more data onto the appliances is a huge benefit."
"Restores from the NetBackup appliances are 14-fold faster compared with tape, and have been 100 percent successful."
–Jesse Determann, Director - Distributed Architecture , Continuum Health Partners, Inc.
"Restores from the NetBackup appliances are 14-fold faster compared with tape, and have been 100 percent successful."
"Symantec's recent release of the NetBackup 5220 Appliance truly provides a 'backup in a box' approach to data protection. DLT recently test drove Symantec's Netbackup 5220 Appliance and had remarkable results. Not only did the appliance receive high marks for ease of use, but the NetBackup software product and startup of the actual appliance made the deduplication rates and backup speeds the top in industry standards."
–Rick Marcotte, President and CEO, DLT Solutions
"Symantec NetBackup 5200 appliances …. were 'literally plug and play - plug them in, set the address, and point them toward the master server'"
"Trying to equal the capabilities of the appliances with traditional software and hardware 'would probably take an additional two to three days of deployment time, and at $175 an hour, that's a pretty substantial labor cost.'"
–Brad Craig, Director of IT, Charlotte Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Associates
"Trying to equal the capabilities of the appliances with traditional software and hardware 'would probably take an additional two to three days of deployment time, and at $175 an hour, that's a pretty substantial labor cost.'"
"When we have separate hardware and software, we have to map and coordinate events such as operating system upgrades, patches, and storage changes, and they don't always mesh smoothly. Appliances simplify this."
–Dan Trim, Director of IT Infrastructure, Health Alliance Plan
