I am new to NBU7 deduplication. I am working in an environment consisting of 6 master servers (seperate domains). Appreciate if you can confirm the following w.r.t NBU 7 deduplication:

1. Master server can be configured as the deduplication storage server as well. Or is it mandatory to have a seperate media server for deduplication in each domain ? Plan is to enable a combo of client dedupe and MSDO. Can one master/media server handle both client dedupe and MSDO loads ?

2. Sharing a deduplication storage pool across domains(multi masters) is not supported. Each master server should be provisioned with it's own volume as deduplication storage pool.

3.  Opt-dedupe Replication between dedupe storage pools can be accomplished using SLP. In this case will the WAN traffic be limited to unique blocks only ? Since the recommendation is to place the dedupe database in a different volume(from the dedupe data vol), how is the database replicated ? Do we need a seperate replication tool for the same ?

Nash