Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage

Hello, I have one requirement in which we need to deploy Symantec Protection Engine for NAS with High Availability. Can someone please help me to get best practice or step by step approach along with architectural model which I can follow.

I have searched but could not find any useful information on High Availability for NAS.

Thanks.

Anurag

Hello,

Please advise if we can install Symantec Protection Engine with Veritas Cluster, if there is any link for best practices or step by step approach which I can follow.

Thanks.

Anurag.

This is really dependent on the NAS that you are utilizing but for the most part, you just define multiple Protection Engine Servers on the NAS. For example, with EMC, you would put multiple ICAP servers that are the SPE servers. If one is down, the Esilon will fail over to the next. Netapp is a little different, as it utilizes RPC.

Another option is to use a VIP (Virtual IP) on something like a F5 Big-IP for HA. The preferred method would be to configure multiple SPE servers on the NAS.

Hope this helps,

  David Ramazetti

  Senior Engineer

  Novacoast