HP StoreOnce Backup System Concepts and Configuration Guidelines (BB877-90913, November 2013)

Contents
1 Before you start..........................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
HP StoreOnce Backup system models..........................................................................................7
StoreOnce Catalyst targets for backup applications.......................................................................8
NAS targets for backup applications...........................................................................................9
Virtual Tape Library targets for backup applications......................................................................9
Comparing StoreOnce Catalyst, NAS and Virtual Tape Library target devices...................................9
Networking and Fibre Channel considerations...........................................................................10
Licensing...............................................................................................................................11
Security Features....................................................................................................................12
For more information...............................................................................................................13
2 HP StoreOnce technology..........................................................................14
Data deduplication.................................................................................................................14
Key performance factors with deduplication that occurs on the StoreOnce Backup system............14
VTL and NAS Replication overview...........................................................................................15
Key performance factors with replication...............................................................................15
Catalyst Copy and deduplication..............................................................................................15
Housekeeping........................................................................................................................15
Backup Application considerations............................................................................................16
Multi-stream or multiplex, what do they mean?.......................................................................16
Why multiplexing is a bad practice......................................................................................16
Effect of multiple streams on StoreOnce Performance .............................................................18
Data compression and encryption backup application features................................................21
3 Concepts specific to StoreOnce B6200 Backup system..................................22
The HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup system...................................................................................22
B6200 Basic Concepts............................................................................................................23
Deployment choices................................................................................................................25
4 Networking considerations........................................................................27
Common networking considerations..........................................................................................27
Supported Ethernet configurations........................................................................................27
Network bonding modes....................................................................................................28
Network configuration in single-node StoreOnce Backup systems..................................................28
General guidelines.............................................................................................................29
Single port configurations...................................................................................................30
Dual port configurations.....................................................................................................31
Bonded port configurations (recommended)..........................................................................32
10GbE Ethernet ports on StoreOnce Backup systems...............................................................33
Network configuration for CIFS AD......................................................................................33
Option 1: HP StoreOnce Backup system on Corporate SAN and Network SAN.....................34
Option 2: HP StoreOnce Backup system on Network SAN only with Gateway.......................35
5 Network configuration in multi-node StoreOnce Backup systems......................36
What is currently supported.....................................................................................................36
What is not currently supported................................................................................................36
Supported network configurations (templates).............................................................................36
Gateway considerations.....................................................................................................37
Template 1, uses 10 GbE and 1 GbE sub-nets........................................................................37
Template 2, uses 1GbE network only....................................................................................38
Template 3, uses 10GbE network only..................................................................................39
Template 4, uses two 1GbE networks...................................................................................39
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