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  Updated: AbdulRasheed 22 Jan 2013

  Symantec NetBackup 5220 Appliance featured at SC ’11 Super Computing conference

  When Lisa Graff, VP/GM of Intel’s Platform Engineering Group took the stage at a special event during SC ’11 Super Computing Conference in Seattle, I was not the only one who had wondered why the new launch was named EPSD 3.0, when there was no 2.0.  Within 10 minutes of her announcement speech, she articulated why it wasn’t just a 2.0! Okay, what is EPSD? It stands for Intel Enterprise Platform and Services Division. This group designs and builds server board and related products for Channel and alliances. When Symantec, the world-leader in security and storage solutions, sought a partner to help deliver it's award winning backup software in an appliance form factor, it selected Intel EPSD for an enterprise class server board. The result can be found in the NetBackup 5220, a single-vendor, purpose-built, enterprise backup...
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  Updated: SeanRegan 22 Jan 2013

  Virtual Visibility: Why you need X-Ray Vision to Backup Virtual Machines

  If there is one key challenge for the virtualization team, it is backup.  All of that newfound agility that makes the virtual machine (VM) teams ninja-like in their ability to deliver IT as a service comes with a backend challenge.  As more and more mission critical applications and systems go virtual, how can these teams make sure they can deliver the same or better SLAs for backup?  Virtualized systems and data are not second class workloads anymore, they are prime time.  And lest you think virtualization is only a big company phenomenon – think again.  Small and mid-sized companies are adopting server virtualization technology at a faster pace than their bigger counterparts.  So the issue of protecting important data in virtualized environments is touching your neighborhood firms as much as big name businesses.   Vendor Landscape – Proceed with Caution It’s no secret that the...
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  Updated: SeanRegan 22 Jan 2013

  New IDC Insight Report About Symantec V-Ray Technology! Don’t miss!

  IDC approached Symantec, unsolicited, for a briefing on V-Ray. They were looking to create an Insight Report for their customers as they had so many inquiries around V-Ray. You’ll find this to be a very comprehensive and technical write up that shows NetBackup’s leadership in virtual machine protection with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. http://idcdocserv.com/230790
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  Updated: AbdulRasheed 22 Jan 2013

  Nuts and Bolts in NetBackup for VMware

  Looking for the details on NetBackup for VMware?  Would you like to know about the nuts and bolts inside? We recently published, and we intend to publish more on technical details on award winning NetBackup for VMware protection. As there are many blogs in this series, I am publishing this blog as a container for this series. The series so far: Discovery job in VMware Intelligent Policy Understanding V-Ray vision through backup process flow Transport methods and TCP ports ...
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  Updated: AbdulRasheed 20 Mar 2013

  VMware Protection using NetBackup Appliances: A Technical Deep Dive

  Note: Please click here for a recent and updated version of this webcast As more and more of your business critical applications get virtualized, your data protection solution needs to step up to the plate. You are likely to have a hybrid environment and your data protection solution should have the visibility into what is inside both virtual and physical systems. Processor intensive blind deduplication of VMDK files will not scale as your environment grows. Above all, the solution also needs to protect vCenter server, the backbone of vMotion, DRS, HA and more. We provided a technical deep dive on NetBackup for VMware and how this award winning data protection solution can be quickly deployed for protecting everything in your data center in a matter of minutes. Powered by V-Ray and Intelligent...
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  Updated: AbdulRasheed 22 Jan 2013

  Nuts and bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Understanding V-Ray vision through backup process flow

  Now that we know how VM discovery job works for a VMware Intelligent Policy (VIP), let us move on to the actual backup job. The process flow described here is the same for both VIP and browse-and-select type policies unless specified otherwise. As we did in the previous blog, let us assume that the NetBackup master server, media server and VMware backup host are three different systems. NetBackup Policy Execution Manager (nbpem) triggers a backup job once the policy, schedule, virtual machine combination is due and backup window is open. It works in conjunction with NetBackup Job Manager (nbjm), NetBackup Resource Broker (nbrb) and NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager (nbemm) to identify the resources (media server, storage unit etc.) for backup. This resource identification process is well detailed in NetBackup Documentation,...
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  Updated: AbdulRasheed 22 Jan 2013

  Nuts and bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Discovery job in VMware Intelligent Policy

  There was a request from Rizwan to explain how NetBackup for VMware works.  Several votes and comments later, I came to know about it from a technical support engineer who had pointed me to that post. We hear you loud and clear, we are looking into getting more details in NetBackup for VMware System Administrator’s Guide. While we wait for a formal documentation update, I thought I better write a set of blogs on what was requested by the community. So here it goes.   Let me not repeat what is already there in the manual. If you are new to NetBackup for VMware, I would strongly recommend going through NetBackup for VMware System Administrator's Guide for an introduction.    For this discussion let us assume that the NetBackup master server, media server and VMware backup host are three different systems. Also let us assume that...