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Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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What is Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

Symantec NetBackup Appliance is a storage and deduplication solution.

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OUR BACKUP COMPANION- NBU.

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peter awortweView profile
IT Asset and Configuration Analyst, Service Catalog Manager, Knowledge Manager in Information Technology at Eprocess ISA (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using NetBackup to back up our transactional data into tapes and cloud backup. This has been in use for over 7 years now, and it has not failed us. The storage of data has also been done with ease.

Pros

  • Push of data to tape is with ease. When there is a failure in tape backup, it alerts quickly for rectification.
  • Using NetBackup to restore data to the database is easy.
  • Backup scheduler is very efficient.

Cons

  • It's doing what we want.

Return on Investment

  • NBU saved the organization from losing money when a financial case was brought against it. The application in question was no longer in use but backup data was in tape and was restored using NBU.

Usability

Symantec a market leader in Data Protection

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Naveen Kumar RView profile
NetBackup Engineer in Engineering at Tech Arro, Arrosoft (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Symantec a market leader in Data Protection
  • De-duplication is a huge adjacent market
  • Symantec has >8yrs experience in this technology
  • Customers are re-architecting their BU designs
  • Tape market is being replaced with disk backup market
  • New delivery / implementation preference is emerging
  • Sell a more powerful s/w & h/w combined solution
  • Provide an end to end solution from one vendor

Cons

  • Dedicated appliance strategy team at corporate level
  • Provide our customers choice of form factor
  • A more efficient method for customers to deploy s/w

Return on Investment

  • Single vendor – one support call
  • Appliance & related S/W integrated into BCS Contract
  • Further enhanced with partner services

Other Software Used

Symantec Backup Exec

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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Prajval PoojariView profile
Data Protection Engineer Intern in Information Technology at Arrosoft (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • NetBackup Appliance is the best effective backup and restore solution out in the market for enterprise level.
  • Fastest deduplication available in the appliance.
  • First time ever V-ray implementation.

Cons

  • Symantec NetBackup Appliance has a dedicated de-duplication tool that comes with the appliance but it would be better if could have the ability to add other de-dupe tool.

Return on Investment

  • Improved operational efficiency.

Other Software Used

Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Enterprise Vault

Symantec NetBackup Appliance Review

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Veerendra PatilView profile
Sr. Backup and Storage Architech in Engineering at Arrosoft Solutions (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • End users can avoid all the testing phases of the software (NetBackup) and it will save their time and effort to start their backup environment.
  • End users can use all the features of NetBackup . Software and hardware compatibility is verified and confirmed from Veritas. End client doesn't need to worry about the software/application(NetBackup)/OS patches.

Cons

  • We cannot make an appliance in Cluster Mode.
  • Cost is little bit high for a medium size business.
  • Need to look for flash disks for OS for appliance which can perform with speed.

Return on Investment

  • We love Veritas and their product so I don't see any negative impact
  • Deduplication
  • AIR (Auto image replication

Other Software Used

Actifio Enterprise, Veeam Backup & Replication

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Shyavappa YalawarView profile
NetBackup Engineer in Engineering at Techarro soft solutions India Pvt LTD (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • In our company we are 10 members, we provide lot services to Arrosoft solutions which is our client such as health checkup, statement of work, and through esxi server we provide some services for NetBackup like creating deduplication pool, working on storage devices, And of course on Netbackup Appliances.
  • Our appliance-based data protection approach will be a critical part of the agile data center infrastructure that will facilitate our build out of cloud services-both public and private.
  • NetBackup Appliances provide significant benefits over traditional build-your-own (BYO) media servers as organizations are able to:
  • Implement faster deployments
  • Reduce risk by minimizing planned and unplanned downtime
  • Improve staff efficiency and enhance service levels
  • NetBackup 5200 series —A versatile integrated backup appliance that can be deployed as a master server, or media server, or both, for a NetBackup domain.

Cons

  • Vendor lock-in is a big downside because using integrated backup appliances makes the assumption that you want to control all backup processes directly from their backup software. But this is not reality.
  • For example, a database administrator may want to protect the database environment using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) rather than using the appliance's backup software.

Return on Investment

  • Acquisition--Eliminating ordering approvals, scheduling, and delivery of separate media server components.
  • Support—Eliminate finger pointing among different component vendors if an issue occurs.
  • Patching and Firmware Updates—Reduce compatibility issues by no longer managing all the components for revision levels, firmware, and more.
  • Administration—Use one management console to perform multiple tasks.
  • Installation and Integration—Remove the hassle of installation, integration, testing, and performance tuning.

Other Software Used

HP A-Series, Silver Peak NX, Exagrid EX Series