Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

The Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System is engineered for organizations that demand top-tier performance and unmatched reliability for their backup and recovery needs. Built to protect both virtual and physical environments, the 5340 delivers enterprise-grade storage with intelligent data management, streamlined operations, and resilient design. This system is designed to scale with your data growth, ensuring fast backups, rapid restores, and dependable disaster recovery across on-premises data centers and hybrid environments. By integrating seamlessly with Veritas NetBackup software, it enables policy-driven protection, automated catalog management, and centralized visibility, reducing downtime and administrative overhead while improving data resilience across your entire footprint.

• The 5340 combines high-performance storage with a robust, fault-tolerant architecture to handle peak backup windows without impacting production workloads. Dual controllers and hot-swappable components minimize planned maintenance and eliminate single points of failure, helping you meet stringent service-level objectives (SLOs) for backups and restores. With optimized data paths and caching strategies, you can achieve lower backup windows, faster deduplication, and quicker recovery times for complex environments, including large-scale VMware, Hyper-V, and physical server deployments. This translates into higher throughput, lower latency, and better utilization of your backup infrastructure, even as data volumes surge.
• Advanced data protection features sit at the core of the NetBackup 5340. Inline deduplication and compression reduce storage footprint and bandwidth requirements, while encryption at rest and robust access controls safeguard sensitive data. The system supports encryption key management and role-based access controls to meet regulatory and compliance needs, ensuring that backups remain tamper-evident and recoverable only by authorized personnel. In addition, immutable backups and retention policies help protect against ransomware and accidental deletions, giving you confidence in your disaster-recovery plans and long-term data integrity.
• Storage efficiency and scalability are built into the 5340’s architecture. The SAN storage system is designed to grow with your organization, enabling seamless capacity expansion through modular drive enclosures and scalable clustering. This flexibility allows you to start with a lean configuration and incrementally add capacity as your data footprint expands, while preserving performance and reliability. By consolidating multiple backup targets into a single, managed storage pool, you gain simplified data governance, consistent protection policies, and easier capacity planning across mixed workloads, including databases, file servers, and virtual environments.
• Seamless integration with Veritas NetBackup delivers a unified protection experience. Policy-based backup orchestration, catalog management, and automated verification simplify day-to-day operations, while centralized monitoring provides real-time visibility into backup health, job status, and capacity trends. This tight integration enables granular restores, application-consistent snapshots, and rapid DR testing, reducing RTOs and ensuring recoverability under adverse conditions. The NetBackup 5340 also supports multisite replication and DR orchestration, enabling automated failover to secondary sites with minimal manual intervention and faster business continuity.
• Manageability, security, and support are prioritized in the 5340. A centralized management interface consolidates configuration, monitoring, and reporting for multiple storage units, simplifying operations across distributed data centers. Redundant power and cooling, combined with remote diagnostics and proactive firmware updates, help maintain peak performance and availability. Security features—including RBAC, data-at-rest encryption, and secure erasure—protect data throughout its lifecycle, while Veritas’ enterprise support ecosystem provides proactive health checks, access to software updates, and assistance with capacity planning and DR testing to keep your environment resilient over time.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Form factor: Rack-mounted SAN storage system designed for enterprise backup deployments, with modular drive enclosures and hot-swappable components.
• Controller architecture: Dual controller design for high availability and load balancing, enabling non-disruptive maintenance and continuous operation during firmware updates or component replacement.
• Storage interfaces: Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity options to integrate with existing storage area networks, backup servers, and media servers. Management interfaces include a secure management network for monitoring and configuration.
• Data protection capabilities: Inline deduplication and compression to optimize capacity; encryption at rest with robust key management; data integrity checks and versioned catalogs; optional retention locks for immutability and ransomware resilience.
• Scalability: Modular growth model that supports capacity expansion through additional drive enclosures while maintaining consistent performance and governance across the storage pool.
• Management and analytics: Centralized web-based management console and CLI for configuration, monitoring, capacity planning, and reporting; integration with Veritas NetBackup for policy-driven protection and automated verification.
• Security and compliance: Role-based access control, secure administration, audit logging, and encryption options to meet industry regulations and internal security policies.
• Power and environment: Redundant hot-swappable power supplies and cooling fans; designed to meet data-center environmental standards for reliability and uptime.
• Operating ecosystem compatibility: Designed to work alongside major hypervisors and operating systems used in enterprise data centers, including VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, and Linux environments, with tested interoperability for backup workloads.

How to install Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

Step 1: Prepare the data center and rack placement. Ensure you have adequate rack space, network access, and power capacity. Verify environmental conditions such as cooling and cabling layout, and confirm that your data center has the appropriate grounding and anti-static provisions. Plan your storage topology and connect to the SAN fabric, ensuring there is no conflict with existing storage zoning or masking policies. Prepare any required service accounts and credentials for initial configuration and NetBackup integration.

Step 2: Unbox, rack, and power up. Install the Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System into the rack, secure all rails, and connect redundant power cables. Power on the system and verify that hardware LEDs indicate healthy operation across controllers, drives, and fans. Use the local management interface to perform initial health checks and confirm firmware baselines match the recommended versions from Veritas.

Step 3: Connect to the network and storage fabric. Attach the appropriate network and storage interfaces (Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI) to your storage area network and media servers. Configure zoning or masking as required to ensure the NetBackup environment can access the storage targets. Establish a management network for secure administrative access and monitoring. Validate connectivity with basic I/O tests to ensure responsiveness and path stability.

Step 4: Initialize storage pools and integrate with NetBackup. Use the NetBackup management console to create storage units, define storage pools, and register the 5340 with the NetBackup environment. Configure policies for backups, retention periods, and catalog backups. Enable data deduplication and encryption settings as appropriate for your data protection strategy, and verify that data flows to the 5340 as expected during initial backup runs.

Step 5: Configure protection policies and DR readiness. Create application-aware protection policies for virtual machines, databases, and file systems. Schedule backups to align with business needs, and configure automated verification and catalog backups to ensure recoverability. If you have a secondary site, set up replication or DR orchestration to enable rapid failover and consistent recovery testing. Validate restores from a representative dataset to confirm integrity and performance.

Step 6: Monitor, optimize, and maintain. Establish ongoing monitoring with alert thresholds for capacity, throughput, and health events. Review performance metrics and adjust deduplication, compression, and retention settings to balance storage economy with protection objectives. Schedule regular firmware updates, backups of configuration settings, and annual DR tests to ensure readiness in case of a real incident.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What environments does the Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System support?

  A: The 5340 is designed to protect mixed workloads across virtual and physical environments. It integrates with Veritas NetBackup to provide policy-driven backups for VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, physical servers, databases, and file-based data, delivering consistent protection and rapid restores across on-premises and hybrid deployments.

• Q: How does data protection and deduplication work in this system?

  A: The system implements inline deduplication and compression to minimize storage consumption and optimize bandwidth usage during backup operations. Data is protected with encryption at rest, and retention policies help prevent premature deletion. Immutable backups and access controls further strengthen resilience against ransomware and insider threats.

• Q: Can I scale the NetBackup 5340 as data grows?

  A: Yes. The 5340 is designed for scalable capacity growth through modular drive enclosures and scalable storage pools. You can add capacity incrementally while maintaining performance, consistent data protection policies, and centralized management across your backup infrastructure.

• Q: How is DR planning and testing handled with this system?

  A: The NetBackup 5340 supports multisite replication and DR orchestration, enabling automated failover and recovery across sites. You can schedule DR tests, verify restores, and ensure data integrity without impacting production workloads, helping your organization meet its business continuity objectives.

• Q: What kind of management capabilities are available?

  A: A centralized management interface provides visibility into backup health, capacity trends, and performance. The combination of a user-friendly GUI and CLI supports efficient administration, policy configuration, and reporting, while integration with NetBackup delivers a cohesive protection ecosystem for ongoing operations and audits.