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Provisioning the storage
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About provisioning the storage
■ About deduplication storage requirements
■ About deduplication storage capacity
■ About the deduplication storage paths
About provisioning the storage
Howto provisionthestorage isbeyond thescope oftheNetBackup documentation.
For help, consult the storage vendor's documentation.
Whatyouchoose asyour storagedestinationaffects howyouprovision thestorage.
NetBackup requirements also may affect how you provision the storage.
See “About the deduplication storage type” on page 19.
About deduplication storage requirements
ThestoragefortheNetBackup MediaServerDeduplicationOptionisdisk storage.
The storage must be attached to the NetBackup media server that functions as
the storage server.Attached meansa file system mount on thestorage. Youmust
provision the storage such that a file system is mounted on the media server.
The storage can be SAN storage or network attached storage. The minimum
requirement is for the disk storage that is capable of read and write performance
of 130 MB/sec.
The storage must be configured and operational before you can configure
deduplication in NetBackup.
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