ExaGrid Expands Veritas Certification of OpenStorage Technology Plug-in

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. expanded its longstanding support of Veritas Technologies LLC‘ OpenStorage Technology (OST) to include the NetBackup 5200 and 5300 line of appliances, including the 5330 and 5340.

NetBackup 5330 systems

The company provides second-generation backup storage with adaptive data deduplication, a unique landing zone, and a scale-out storage architecture for backups, restores, and VM boots. NetBackup customers who utilize the 5200 or 5300 appliances for their NetBackup master and media servers, but not for backup storage, can now take advantage of all of firm’s architectural advantages for long-term retention of backup data.

The company supports Veritas’ OST to provide deeper integration between Veritas’ backup applications and firm’s target-side backup appliances with deduplication and replication. This integration provides backup performance and reliability as compared to CIFS or NAS and balances backup traffic across the network interfaces of all company’s appliances in its grid system.

Optimized duplication of backup images provides information to NetBackup about company’s replicated backups, eliminating the need to catalog the remote backup copies and resulting in fastt DR. In addition, flexible retention options allow longer-term retention at either the primary or secondary site(s) to better meet each customer’s specific DR requirements.

Optimized synthetic backups allow more frequent incremental backups (which reduces workload on backup clients) while maintaining the safety, convenience, and efficiency of regular full backups. NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) automates and accelerates DR from one NetBackup domain to another NetBackup recovery domain so that when a disaster occurs, NetBackup at the DR site has all of the necessary catalog information already in place to immediately call for the data from the offsite company’s system across backup domains.

The firm’s OST plug-in package can be downloaded from any company’s server using the ExaGrid web-based GUI and loaded onto the NetBackup 5200 and 5300 Appliances following Veritas’ documented procedure. NetBackup’s Administrative Console is then used to configure NetBackup resources for the ExaGrid sites.

Company’s approach provides faster backups by performing deduplication after landing backups to disk. The firm maintains the most recent non-deduplicated backups in a landing zone for fast restores and VM boots, and stores longer-term deduplicated retention data in its repository storage. Due to ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture, which adds compute with capacity, the backup window stays fixed in length as data grows.