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

The Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System is an enterprise-grade backup storage appliance engineered to deliver outstanding performance, scalable capacity, and rock-solid availability for organizations facing demanding backup and recovery objectives. This high‑throughput, modular solution is designed to safeguard both virtual and physical environments, consolidating data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance into a single, easy‑to‑manage platform. As data footprints grow, the 5340 scales with minimal downtime, ensuring backups complete faster, RPOs stay tight, and recovery times align with business needs. Built with advanced data management features such as inline deduplication, compression, and intelligent policy automation, NetBackup 5340 helps you optimize storage efficiency while preserving enterprise-grade resilience. For IT teams handling mission‑critical workloads, the 5340 delivers dependable protection across on‑premises data centers, remote offices, and cloud-enabled architectures, all under a unified management framework that simplifies administration and accelerates recovery.

At its core, the NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System provides a resilient, purpose-built platform optimized for backup operations. It is designed to deliver consistent performance even during peak backup windows, ensuring continuous data protection without compromising application performance. Its architecture supports scalable capacity and throughput growth through modular expansion, empowering organizations to respond to data growth, regulatory requirements, and evolving recovery objectives. The appliance integrates tightly with Veritas NetBackup software, enabling centralized policy control, automated cataloging, and streamlined recovery workflows that reduce manual intervention and shrink time to restore critical data. In addition, the 5340 embraces multi‑path I/O, redundancy across controllers and power, and robust media management features to minimize downtime and maximize data availability.

One of the key strengths of the NetBackup 5340 is its ability to protect a diverse mix of workloads. It safeguards virtual environments (such as VMware and Hyper‑V) with policy‑driven protection that aligns with virtual machine lifecycles, while also protecting traditional physical servers, databases, and applications. The system supports flexible retention policies, granular deduplication, and compression to reduce overall storage consumption without compromising recoverability. By enabling efficient data movement and secure storage, the 5340 helps IT teams maintain business continuity, meet compliance obligations, and accelerate disaster recovery readiness. The appliance’s rich feature set also supports cloud integration, enabling tiering to public or private clouds and facilitating offsite DR copies that further reduce risk while controlling costs.

Deployment is streamlined through a unified management experience that provides visibility into backup jobs, data movement, storage usage, and recovery testing. The NetBackup 5340’s architecture is designed to minimize administrative overhead, with automated provisioning, policy enforcement, and proactive health monitoring that alert administrators to performance or capacity anomalies before they impact service levels. For organizations pursuing resilience and efficiency, the 5340 represents a compelling combination of performance, scalability, and reliability—delivering enterprise-grade protection for today’s data-intensive environments while keeping operational costs under control.

• High performance architecture designed to handle large-scale backups and frequent snapshots, delivering low-latency data protection even during peak windows.
• Seamless scalability with modular expansion, enabling the addition of capacity and I/O throughput as your data footprint grows, without disruptive downtime.
• Comprehensive data protection features including inline deduplication, compression, replication, and flexible retention policies to minimize storage costs and maximize availability.
• Broad virtualization and cloud integration support, protecting virtual machines (VMware, Hyper-V), physical servers, and cloud workloads with unified management across on-premises and off-site sites.
• Centralized, automated management and reporting through NetBackup software, delivering consistent policies, automated cataloging, and rapid recovery across the environment.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• UPC/SKU-based specifications: Detailed technical specifications are available from the vendor's specifications page on the Synnex EC portal. Please refer to the product listing for complete data such as processor, memory, networking, I/O expansion, and supported configurations.

How to install Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Plan your deployment by identifying the primary backup master server, destination pools, retention periods, and required replication targets.
• Unbox and rack-mount the appliance per the included installation guide, connect power, network interfaces, and management consoles, and boot the system to the initial setup wizard.
• Configure storage controllers, network fabrics (Ethernet or Fibre Channel as appropriate), and protection domains to optimize throughput and ensure redundancy.
• Install and configure NetBackup software on the master server if not already in place, and register the 5340 as a storage target within the NetBackup environment.
• Set up data protection policies, deduplication/compression settings, and replication to secondary sites or cloud targets to meet RPO/RTO requirements.
• Run validation jobs to verify backup, deduplication efficiency, and restore processes; monitor performance metrics and adjust policies for ongoing optimization.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: What is the Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System? A: It is an enterprise‑grade backup storage appliance designed to deliver high performance, scalable capacity, and robust availability for protecting virtual and physical environments, with tight integration to Veritas NetBackup software.
• Q: What environments does it protect? A: It protects a mix of virtual machines (VMware, Hyper‑V), physical servers, databases, and cloud workloads, all managed through a unified NetBackup interface.
• Q: Does it include data deduplication and compression? A: Yes. Inline deduplication and compression help reduce storage footprint while maintaining fast restore capabilities.
• Q: How does it support disaster recovery? A: It supports replication to offsite locations or cloud targets, enabling reliable DR copies and rapid failover in case of site outages.
• Q: How is management handled? A: Management is centralized through Veritas NetBackup, with automated policy enforcement, cataloging, reporting, and recovery workflows across the entire environment.
• Q: What should be considered when planning deployment? A: Consider current and projected data growth, virtualized infrastructure size, RPO/RTO targets, network capacity, and required DR arrangements to design scalable, resilient protection workflows.