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About deduplication server requirements
All hosts that are used for deduplication must be NetBackup 7.0 or later. Hosts
include the master server, the media servers, and the clients.
Thecomputer’s CPUandmemory constrainhow manyjobs canrun concurrently.
Table 2-3
Deduplication server minimum requirements
RequirementHardware
CPUspeedis themostimportantfactorfor performance.Minimum
CPU speed should be 2.2 GHz.
The deduplicationstorage server shouldhave a minimumof 4 CPU
cores. Symantec recommends eight cores.
Symantec recommends Intel, AMD, and Sun SPARC processors (in
order of effectiveness).
CPU
Symantec recommends 4 GBs of memory minimum.RAM
Theoperatingsystemmustbeasupported64-bitoperatingsystem.
For supported systems, see the NetBackup Release Notes.
Operating system
Note: Symantec recommends that you do not use the master server as a
deduplicationstorageserver. Masterserveractivity andmediaserver deduplication
activity on the same host degrades performance.
Note: Symantec recommends that you do not use an existing media server for
deduplication. Similarly, Symantecrecommends that you do not repurposeolder
host hardware for deduplication.
About media server deduplication limitations
NetBackup media server deduplication and Symantec Backup Exec deduplication
cannot reside on the same host. If you use both NetBackup and Backup Exec
deduplication, each product must reside on a separate host.
NetBackupdeduplicationcomponents cannotresideonthe samehostasa PureDisk
Deduplication Option (PDDO) agent. Therefore, you cannot use the same media
server for both NetBackup deduplication and as a PDDO host.
You cannot upgrade to NetBackup 7.0 or later a NetBackup media server that
hosts a PDDO agent. If the NetBackup 7.0 installation detects the PDDO agent,
23Planning your deployment
About the NetBackup Media Server Deduplication Option