Introducing Openstorage; About The Netbackup Openstorage Option - Symantec NetBackup Manual

Introducing OpenStorage

This chapter includes the following topics:

About the NetBackup OpenStorage option

OpenStorage is a Symantec API that allows NetBackup to communicate with the
storage implementations that conform to the API. Storage may be the following:
Storage vendors participate in the Symantec OpenStorage Partner Program.
Symantec qualifies their storage solutions for the OpenStorage API.
Depending on the storage implementation, OpenStorage may provide the following
capabilities:
About the NetBackup OpenStorage option
About control of the storage
Disk appliances that include a host computer and the storage.
Nirvanix cloud-based storage.
Share disks. Multiple heterogeneous media servers can access the same disk
volume concurrently.
Balance load and performance. NetBackup balances backup jobs and storage
usage among the media servers and disk pools. For each backup job, NetBackup
chooses the least full disk volume and least busy media server.
Use of disk appliance capabilities, which may include optimized off-host
duplication and deduplicated storage capabilities.
Fast storage provisioning.
Almost unlimited storage.
Alternative to off-site vaulting.
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