Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

The Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System is a purpose-built backup appliance designed to meet the demanding backup and recovery needs of modern data centers. This advanced storage solution blends robust performance, scalable capacity, and exceptional availability to protect both virtual and physical environments with minimal downtime. Engineered to work seamlessly with Veritas NetBackup software, the 5340 delivers a resilient foundation for data protection that scales with your organization’s growth and evolving workloads.

Designed for versatility, the NetBackup 5340 enables you to accelerate backups, streamline disaster recovery, and simplify compliance across diverse environments—ranging from on-premises infrastructure to virtualized clouds. Its modular architecture, combined with centralized management and policy-driven automation, reduces administrative overhead while increasing reliability and control over your data protection program.

• High-performance data protection: The NetBackup 5340 is engineered to handle large-scale backup and restore operations with low latency, enabling faster backups and quicker recovery times for critical workloads. Its optimized data paths, parallel processing, and caching strategies improve throughput for databases, file servers, and virtual machines, empowering IT teams to meet tight recovery objectives without sacrificing protection quality.
• Scalable storage architecture: Start with a compact configuration and scale capacity seamlessly as data grows, all without disrupting ongoing protection workflows. The 5340 supports modular expansion and scalable pools, allowing organizations to add capacity in line with demand while maintaining consistent performance and protection policies across the environment.
• Virtual and physical environment support: Native integration with VMware, Hyper-V, and physical servers ensures consistent protection across heterogeneous infrastructures. This unified approach simplifies policy creation, reporting, and recovery across both virtual machines and traditional servers, reducing complexity and fragmentation in your data protection strategy.
• Enhanced availability and reliability: Redundant controllers, failover paths, and robust hardware design minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. The system is built to withstand component failures and maintain service levels during maintenance or expansion, helping you meet stricter RPOs and keep critical workloads online under adverse conditions.
• Centralized management and policy automation: Unified management console and policy-based scheduling streamline administration and optimize backup windows. Central visibility into backup status, capacity utilization, and health checks enables proactive management, quicker issue resolution, and consistent protection across the entire data center landscape.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Type: Enterprise-grade SAN storage appliance designed for data protection workloads and tight integration with Veritas NetBackup software.
• Connectivity: Supports multiple host interfaces and SAN fabric options to align with existing storage networks, enabling flexible deployment in diverse data center environments.
• Capacity and scalability: Modular architecture with expandable storage capacity to accommodate growing backup data footprints while preserving performance and protection policies.
• Protection and compliance features: Optimized for reliable backup and recovery workflows, with centralized management, monitoring, and reporting to support governance and compliance requirements.
• Management: Centralized, policy-driven management interface that simplifies configuration, monitoring, and orchestration of backups, restores, and test recoveries.

How to Install Veritas NetBackup 5340 SAN Storage System

• Prepare and rack the appliance: Plan the deployment in a suitable data center space with adequate cooling, power, and cable management. Install the NetBackup 5340 in a compliant rack and verify physical connectivity to the network and SAN fabric.
• Power up and access the management interface: Connect power, boot the system, and access the built-in management interface using the standard default networking configuration. Authenticate with administrator credentials and begin initial setup.
• Configure networking and storage pools: Set up IP addressing, gateway, DNS, and any required VLANs. Create storage pools and define protection targets in alignment with your NetBackup strategy to ensure consistent data protection across all protected assets.
• Licensing and policy integration: Import or activate required licenses and integrate the appliance with your NetBackup server. Establish credentials and connectivity to allow seamless communication between the 5340 and NetBackup for policy-based protection.
• Create storage units and protection policies: Define storage units, media servers, and backup policies that map to your workload requirements. Validate the configuration with test backups and restores to confirm performance and recoverability before going into production.

Frequently asked questions

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

  A: It is designed to protect both virtual and physical environments, supporting common virtualization platforms and traditional servers within a single, unified data protection workflow.

• Q: How does the 5340 contribute to reducing backup windows?

  A: By delivering high-throughput data paths, efficient data handling, and streamlined management, the system accelerates backups and reduces the time needed to complete protection cycles, helping meet tighter recovery objectives.

• Q: Can I expand capacity without downtime?

  A: Yes. The scalable architecture supports modular expansion, enabling capacity growth with minimal disruption to ongoing protection tasks.

• Q: Is this system compatible with existing NetBackup deployments?

  A: The NetBackup 5340 is designed for seamless integration with NetBackup software, offering centralized policy management and reporting to harmonize protection across the data center.