When I visit with customers, I always get asked about tuning NetBackup. Good news, I now have something better to pull out than the old "tune-a-fish" joke. The NetBackup 6.5 Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide is now available.
As a Product Manager for NetBackup for VMware, one of the biggest challenges I face is around prioritization. Where does it make the most sense to spend my time? On the one hand, assisting customers on a one-on-one basis is very attractive. When I do that, I can help, say, Batman identify which product within the NetBackup for VMware suite (NetBackup Enterprise Client, PureDisk, or PureDisk Deduplication Option) is best suited to his multiple batcaves. Batman may well prefer Enterprise Client for his headquarters beneath the mansion due to its enhanced VMDK image-level DR support, but may elect to use PureDisk in his remote batcave in the Hamptons, and then use PDDO to shrink the VMDK files transferred over by Enterprise Client and VCB.
But sometimes it seems to make more sense to spend time on other activities, and most recently VMware has been especially friendly. Their office is only a few miles away from ours in...
I realized that I should probably be talking about the other blockbuster comic book based movie, but something I read about Batman's disk storage requirements got my attention.
Pete Steege over at the "Storage Effect" blog recently posted about the "Batman's Storage Requirements". After reading that post I'm pretty sure that we need to talk to Bruce Wayne or perhaps Alfred about a backup and disaster recovery strategy.
First of all, Bruce Wayne needs to think seriously about what data you actually need to backup and how long you need to retain those backups. If the majority of your data is from video feeds around Gotham, you probably want to keep it for a relatively short period of time. Since you...
Registration has started for the NetBackup Customer Forum inRoseville that is held once a year. The event is planned for October21-23 2008 for worldwide customers to learn more about NetBackup, PureDisk, BackupReporter and Real-Time protection products. This event is also importantso that engineering can hear direct customer feedback. Customers must be under NDA to attendthis event.
As Tim eluded to in his last post I haven't been writing as much on the blog since I've been out training everyone on all the new data protection things we announced at Vision. I'll keep this one short. First off, I still love Twitter. I've talked about it before but it's especially when I'm not at home or the office (or in front of a computer) that I really like Twitter. And now NetBackup can tweet at twitter.com/netbackup. Follow the blue guy!
Second is a series of webcasts that will be coming up. The first is about how to cut the amount of storage used for backup by applying a technique called just-in-time inventory. It's a 1-hour deal and I'll be doing it myself live next Tuesday the 12th. Sign up at https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=65668
That's it for now, I'll be back with a more meaty post soon.
