Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

The Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System is an enterprise-ready backup appliance designed to deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and protection for modern data centers. Built to scale with your organization’s data growth, this integrated SAN storage solution combines powerful hardware with the depth of Veritas NetBackup software, creating a unified platform for fast backups, rapid recoveries, and resilient data protection. Its architecture is optimized to handle the demanding workloads of large-scale environments, where data volumes continue to expand and the need for cyber-resilience becomes paramount. With built-in data reduction, policy-driven management, and streamlined verification, the 5340 helps organizations minimize storage footprint while maximizing backup confidence. Whether protecting on-premises, cloud-connected, or hybrid workloads, the NetBackup 5340 is designed to simplify data protection, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate recovery times across the enterprise.

• Integrated backup appliance for NetBackup designed to deliver optimized performance with tight integration to Veritas NetBackup software, enabling streamlined installation, policy-based backups, and centralized management from a single control plane.
• Advanced data protection capabilities including data deduplication and compression to minimize storage requirements, along with integrity checks and verification to ensure recoverability and confidence in restoration targets.
• Scalability that matches data growth with flexible storage capacity and modular expansion options, so you can begin with a footprint that fits today and scale as your protection needs expand without disrupting operations.
• Enterprise-grade reliability and availability featuring redundant components, failover-ready architecture, and robust resilience strategies to minimize downtime and protect critical backups against hardware failures or outages.
• Seamless management and integration through the NetBackup console and familiar enterprise workflows, enabling policy creation, catalog management, reporting, and monitoring across the backup lifecycle from a single interface.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Product overview: An integrated SAN storage appliance optimized for Veritas NetBackup data protection workloads in modern data centers.
• Storage architecture: Scalable SAN storage with centralized control to simplify backup administration and data movement within the NetBackup ecosystem.
• Performance characteristics: Engineered for efficient backups and rapid recoveries; exact throughput and latency depend on configuration, workload mix, and deployment environment.
• Software compatibility: Designed to work in concert with Veritas NetBackup software, supporting policy-based backups, catalog management, deduplication, and validation workflows.
• Reliability and availability: Built to support enterprise-grade reliability with components and configurations aimed at reducing downtime and preserving backup integrity.

How to install Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Plan and rack the appliance in a suitable data center location, ensuring adequate cooling, power, and physical security for the unit.
• Connect the storage system to your network and storage fabric using the recommended cabling and network topology for your environment.
• Power on the appliance and follow the initial system setup wizard to configure network settings, storage pools, and basic protection policies.
• Integrate the 5340 with your Veritas NetBackup server(s), create storage policies, catalogs, and verify that backups can be written and restores tested from the NetBackup console.
• Run a baseline backup to validate performance, integrity, and recovery workflows; schedule regular maintenance windows and implement monitoring for ongoing health checks.

Frequently asked questions

• What is the Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System? — It is an enterprise-grade, integrated backup appliance designed to protect data in modern data centers by combining robust SAN storage with the NetBackup data protection platform for streamlined backups and rapid restores.
• What benefits does it offer for data protection? — The system delivers high-performance backups, scalable capacity, data reduction options, and policy-driven management to simplify protection workflows and improve recovery times.
• How does it integrate with NetBackup software? — It is built to work tightly with Veritas NetBackup, enabling seamless policy creation, catalog protection, verification, and centralized monitoring from the NetBackup console.
• Is the 5340 scalable for growing data volumes? — Yes. The appliance is designed to scale with your data growth, allowing capacity expansion and expansion of protection capabilities as your environment expands.
• What deployment environments are supported? — It supports on-premises deployments with potential hybrid configurations, integrating with existing NetBackup infrastructure to protect a mix of workloads across data centers and cloud connections.