Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System — Enterprise-Grade Backup Appliance

The Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System is designed to meet the stringent demands of modern data centers, providing high performance, scalable capacity, and exceptional availability. This advanced backup appliance integrates seamlessly into both virtual and physical environments, ensuring your data protection strategy remains resilient, efficient, and future-ready. Built for enterprises with large-scale workloads, the 5340 combines enterprise-grade storage with powerful NetBackup software, delivering fast backups, rapid restores, and simplified management across mixed workloads—from virtual machines to mission-critical databases. Whether you are protecting on-premises infrastructure, cloud-connected environments, or a hybrid data footprint, the 5340 is engineered to reduce risk, accelerate recovery, and optimize storage economics. With rugged reliability, streamlined operations, and policy-driven automation, this SAN storage system is crafted to safeguard your most valuable information assets while keeping operational costs in check.

• Scalable, future-ready architecture: Designed to grow with your data center needs, the 5340 supports expanding capacity through modular shelves and tiered storage, enabling you to add capacity without interrupting ongoing backups. This flexibility makes it ideal for long-term data protection strategies as data volumes surge and retention requirements increase. The architecture is optimized for parallel processing and workload isolation, so added shelves don’t bottleneck performance during peak backup windows.
• Integrated NetBackup software for complete data protection: The appliance ships with Veritas NetBackup, delivering policy-based backups, automated disaster recovery workflows, and centralized visibility. You gain end-to-end protection for physical servers, virtual machines, databases, and application workloads from a single, unified console. This integration reduces administration overhead, accelerates backup windows, and simplifies long-term retention and legal hold processes.
• Advanced data efficiency and security: Built-in deduplication, compression, and encryption help minimize backup storage needs while safeguarding sensitive data in transit and at rest. Immutability and verified backups support compliance and reliable recovery in the event of ransomware or data corruption. Flexible retention policies and granular restore options ensure you recover exactly what you need, when you need it.
• Seamless virtualization and physical deployment: Optimized for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as traditional physical servers, the 5340 fits into diverse data center topologies. Centralized management reduces administrative overhead and accelerates backup windows across heterogeneous environments, enabling consistent protection across virtualization clusters, databases, file shares, and enterprise applications.
• Reliability, availability, and fast recovery: High-availability features, redundant components, and streamlined recovery workflows enable rapid restores and minimal downtime. Built to withstand demanding backup windows, the 5340 minimizes impact on production systems while maintaining consistent protection for data at scale. Unified alerting, health checks, and proactive monitoring help you identify issues before they affect backups or restores.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Note: Specifications vary by configuration and SKU. Exact numbers (capacity, throughput, interfaces) are defined by the chosen expansion options and license. Refer to the official spec sheet for your SKU for precise figures.
• Storage architecture: Modular SAN storage with integrated NetBackup protection software designed for large-scale data centers.
• Protection features: Policy-based backups, automated retention, deduplication, encryption, and immutable backups to guard against data loss and tampering.
• Virtualization support: Optimized for virtual environments (VMware, Hyper-V) and physical servers, enabling consistent protection across mixed workloads.
• Management and orchestration: Centralized, policy-driven management with a single pane of glass for backup, recovery, reporting, and alerting across the environment.

How to install Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

Installing the Veritas NetBackup 5340 is a guided, appliance-driven process that can be completed by a qualified IT administrator in a controlled maintenance window. Begin with planning and rack-mounting, then perform network and licensing configuration, followed by storage provisioning, policy creation, and validation. The typical installation flow is designed to minimize downtime and to ensure that data protection starts immediately after deployment.

• Prepare and rack: Unbox the unit, install in a suitable rack, connect to power and the management network, and verify all hardware indicators. Confirm environmental conditions meet the required temperature and airflow specifications.
• Initial configuration: Access the management console via the assigned IP address, complete the initial setup wizard, and install the NetBackup license bundle appropriate to your environment. Validate time synchronization and certificate trust to ensure secure communication with the master server.
• Connect to the Master server: Register the appliance with your Veritas NetBackup master server, authenticate credentials, and verify connectivity. Ensure the appliance can reach required backup targets and that DNS resolution is functioning properly.
• Provision storage and policies: Create disk pools or storage units, configure deduplication and encryption settings, and define backup policies for workloads across virtual and physical assets. Apply appropriate retention rules and disaster recovery parameters aligned with business requirements.
• Test recovery and DR readiness: Run a planned recovery exercise to verify restore integrity, verify retention rules, and enable optional replication to a DR site or cloud tier for disaster recovery readiness. Schedule periodic test restores to confirm ongoing operability.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What is the Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System best used for? A: It is a scalable backup storage appliance designed to protect data across virtual, physical, and cloud-connected environments with integrated NetBackup software and data protection features.
• Q: Does the 5340 support mixed environments? A: Yes. It protects virtual machines, databases, applications, and physical servers, providing a unified solution for diverse data center workloads.
• Q: Can I expand capacity later? A: Yes. The system is designed for modular expansion and capacity growth through shelves and tiered storage options without disruptive downtime.
• Q: Is data encrypted at rest? A: Yes. Encryption can be enabled for stored backups, and data can be encrypted in transit depending on the deployment configuration.
• Q: Does NetBackup 5340 integrate with cloud storage? A: Yes. It supports cloud tiering and DR replication to cloud storage as part of the overall data protection strategy.