HP (Hewlett-Packard) D2D Computer Drive User Manual


 
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HP D2D Backup Systems
Best practices for VTL, NAS and
Replication implementations
Table of contents
Abstract .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Related products .................................................................................................................................. 4
Validity ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 5
General D2D best practices at a glance ............................................................................................. 5
VTL best practices at a glance............................................................................................................ 5
NAS best practices at a glance ......................................................................................................... 6
HP StoreOnce Technology .................................................................................................................... 7
Replication overview ........................................................................................................................ 7
Housekeeping overview .................................................................................................................... 8
Upstream and Backup Application considerations ................................................................................ 9
Data compression and encryption backup application features ............................................................ 10
Network configuration........................................................................................................................ 11
Single Port mode ............................................................................................................................ 12
Dual Port mode .............................................................................................................................. 13
High availability port mode (Port failover) ......................................................................................... 14
High availability port mode (Link Aggregate) .................................................................................... 14
10Gbit Ethernet ports on the 4312/4324 appliances ........................................................................ 15
Network configuration for CIFS AD .................................................................................................. 15
Backup server networking ............................................................................................................... 18