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Fibre Channel configuration............................................................. 19
Fibre Channel topologies ................................................................................................................ 19
Switched fabric .............................................................................................................................. 19
Direct Attach (Private Loop) ............................................................................................................. 20
Zoning .......................................................................................................................................... 20
Diagnostic Fibre Channel devices .................................................................................................... 21
Fibre Channel configuration via Web Management Interface .............................................................. 21
Best practices for network and Fibre Channel configuration ................................................................ 22
VTL best practices .............................................................................................................................. 25
Summary of best practices............................................................................................................... 25
Tape library emulation .................................................................................................................... 25
Backup application configuration ..................................................................................................... 27
Rotation schemes and retention policy .............................................................................................. 28
D2D NAS best practices ..................................................................................................................... 30
Introduction to D2D NAS backup targets .......................................................................................... 30
Overview of NAS best practices ...................................................................................................... 30
Choosing NAS or VTL for backup .................................................................................................... 30
Shares and deduplication stores ...................................................................................................... 31
Maximum concurrently open files ..................................................................................................... 31
Backup application configuration ..................................................................................................... 32
Housekeeping impact on maximum file size selection ......................................................................... 37
CIFS share authentication ................................................................................................................ 38
VTL and NAS – Data source performance bottleneck identification .......................................................... 44
Performance tools........................................................................................................................... 44
Performance metrics on the Web Management Interface..................................................................... 44
How to use the D2D storage and deduplication ratio reporting metrics ................................................. 46
D2D Replication ................................................................................................................................ 48
D2D replication overview ................................................................................................................ 48
Best practices overview ................................................................................................................... 48
Replication usage models ................................................................................................................ 49
What to replicate ........................................................................................................................... 52
Appliance, library and share replication fan in/out ............................................................................ 53
Concurrent replication jobs ............................................................................................................. 54
Limiting replication concurrency ....................................................................................................... 54
WAN link sizing ............................................................................................................................ 54