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Avoiding bad practices
The worked example describes the best practices. Typical bad practices are:-
Bad Practice
Results
Not using the Sizing tool
Incorrect models chosen because of wrong throughput
calculations.
Replication Link sizing incorrect
Insufficient backup streams configured to run in parallel
Poor backup performance, poor replication
performance
Using single dedupe store (device) instead of separate
stores (devices) for different data types.
May get higher deduplication ratio but store will
become full quicker, and performance will start to
degrade with more complex/mature stores.
Run all backups without consideration for
housekeeping. Try to schedule specific
backup/replication and housekeeping windows.
Housekeeping will start to interfere with backup
performance and replication performance.
Use of Appends
Impacts replication performance because clones have
to be made on the target. Where possible use
“overwrites” on cartridges.
Using backup methods that use heavy write-in-place
functionality – such as, Drag & drop, Granular
Recovery Technology, VMWare changed block
tracking->create virtual full.
Recovery times will be increased because the
deduplication engine must perform many write-in-place
functions, which slows down restore times. NAS
devices only.
Daily direct tape offload from D2D with high volumes
of data
Unable to get all the data onto physical tape in a
reasonable time. Use direct write to physical tape
where possible.