Symantec NetBackup 5330 Integrated Appliance

Symantec Corp. introduced in NetBackup appliance 5300 series.

The 5300 series are media servers with storage and are optimized to deliver performance, scalability, and resiliency. The NetBackup 5330 was announced in October and will be GA (availability) in March.

Integrated appliances
The NetBackup 5330 is an integrated purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA). Integrated, as defined by IDC, means it has the master or media servers built into the system to orchestrate the backup and movement of data to other systems or removable media such as tape. This is different than target appliances, which are dependent on third-party backup software and designed to integrate in heterogeneous environments. Often target appliances are deduplication storage systems or devices.Both the NetBackup 5200 and 5300 series are integrated appliances.

NetBackup appliance family
The introduction of the NetBackup 5330 extends these appliances into large enterprises. It is the complement to the NetBackup 5200 series, allowing to leverage both series to address specific backup and recovery challenges within your environment.

• NetBackup 5200 series – a versatile integrated backup appliance that can be deployed as a master server, media server, or both, for a NetBackup domain. It simplifies and offers OpEx savings over traditional build-your-own media servers.

• NetBackup 5300 series – an integrated backup media server with storage to support performance, capacity, and resiliency requirements.

NetBackup appliance product comparison
One difference between the NetBackup 5230 and 5330 models is their capacity scale, as highlighted in the figure above.

Related to capacity, another difference is the capacity density of the products, see table below. The NetBackup 5330 delivers 22.80 TB per Rack Space Unit (RSU). Having greater capacity density saves valuable rack space, which is often at a premium given the cost of data center floor space and limited ability to expand the data center. The appliance also delivers environmental benefits such as power and cooling, which will be covered in greater detail in a subsequent blog.

Usable Capacity and Density Chart

NetBackup 5200 and 5300 series already co-exist in many customer environments. Two common scenarios for the NetBackup 5200 are:

• Replacement for build-your-own media servers. Allows organizations to make an initial investment in NetBackup appliances and gain theOpEx savings and the option to later consolidate point products (i.e. VTLs or target dedupe storage) into the NetBackup 5230 appliance by adding additional expansion shelves.

• Remote offices. As a media server with either 4TB or 14TB of capacity, it is for remote offices to consolidate a media server, disk and/or tape storage into a single appliance. This allows for local backups with the added protection of replication to a centralized site or datacenter, all under the control of IT.

NetBackup 5330 is for organizations requiring performance, scale, or reliability.

Common use cases are:

• Media server requiring greater performance and capacity scale for storage, either deduplicated and/or non-deduplicated.

• Centralized storage; either in a datacenter or in a DR target. For example, using the NetBackup 5230 in the remote offices, and replicating back to a NetBackup 5330 for centralized storage.