Veritas NetBackup 5350 SAN/NAS Storage System

The Veritas NetBackup 5350 SAN/NAS Storage System is an enterprise-grade backup appliance engineered to meet the most demanding data protection requirements in today’s data centers. Built around the trusted NetBackup software, this appliance combines high-performance hardware with intelligent software to deliver fast backups, rapid recoveries, and resilient data protection for both virtualized and physical environments. Designed for scale, simplicity, and reliability, the NetBackup 5350 helps organizations consolidate backup infrastructure, reduce operational complexity, and lower total cost of ownership while maintaining strong data governance and compliance. Whether you are safeguarding a sprawling virtualized estate, remote/branch offices, or mission-critical databases, the NetBackup 5350 provides a unified, scalable platform that grows with your data, workloads, and recovery objectives.

• High-performance, all-in-one backup appliance: The NetBackup 5350 merges purpose-built hardware with industry-leading NetBackup software to deliver fast backup windows, near-instant restores for critical workloads, and streamlined management from a single interface. Its optimized I/O path and intelligent data handling help ensure that backup windows stay within acceptable limits even as data volumes surge.
• Scalable capacity to match data growth: Start with a robust baseline and scale storage capacity as your environment expands. The 5350’s modular, scalable design allows organizations to add capacity and performance without migrating to an entirely new system, ensuring long-term investment protection and continued backup efficacy as data footprint expands across on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Resiliency you can count on: Built for high availability, the 5350 features redundant components, fault-tolerant design, and hot-swappable drives to minimize downtime. With automatic failover, robust error handling, and proactive health monitoring, you can maintain steady protection levels during maintenance windows or hardware faults.
• Unified protection for virtual and physical workloads: Protects mixed environments from a single appliance with policy-driven automation, centralized management, and seamless integration with NetBackup’s broad ecosystem. This enables consistent backup and recovery across virtual machines, physical servers, databases, and application workloads, simplifying data governance and recovery SLAs.
• Data efficiency, security, and governance: Leverage built-in deduplication, compression, and tiering to minimize storage footprint and bandwidth usage. Encryption at rest and in transit, along with role-based access control and audit-ready logging, helps meet regulatory requirements and strengthens data security and compliance across the protection stack.

Technical Details of Veritas NetBackup 5350 SAN/NAS Storage System

• Product type: SAN/NAS backup storage appliance
• Software: NetBackup backup software pre-installed and tightly integrated for turnkey protection
• Environment compatibility: Designed for data centers, supporting virtualized and physical workloads
• Storage architecture: Scalable, modular design enabling straightforward capacity growth and performance tuning
• Performance characteristics: Optimized data paths deliver high throughput and low latency to meet aggressive backup windows
• Data protection features: Deduplication, compression, encryption, and optional immutability/recovery controls
• Reliability and availability: Redundant controllers, hot-swappable components, and automated health monitoring for minimal downtime
• Management: Centralized administration via the NetBackup Console with policy-based automation and reporting
• Connectivity and interfaces: Supports standard storage networking interfaces suitable for SAN/NAS configurations

How to Install Veritas NetBackup 5350 SAN/NAS Storage System

• Prepare the data center: verify rack space, power, cooling, and network readiness for the appliance deployment.
• Unbox and inspect the unit, ensuring all components and cables are present and undamaged.
• Rack-mount the appliance in a standard 19-inch rack, secure with appropriate hardware, and connect power and cooling.
• Connect to your storage fabric and network using approved interfaces, then power up the system to begin the initial configuration.
• Run the initial setup wizard to configure network settings, licensing, time synchronization, and basic system parameters.
• Install or integrate NetBackup software if not pre-installed, and link the appliance to the centralized NetBackup management server or server group.
• Create storage pools and define backup policies, schedules, and retention rules that align with your data protection objectives.
• Perform a pilot backup and restore to validate performance, accuracy, and recovery workflows before ramping to full-scale protection.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What environments does NetBackup 5350 protect?

  A: It provides unified protection for both virtual and physical environments, enabling centralized policy management, consistent recovery workflows, and streamlined reporting across workloads.

• Q: How does the NetBackup 5350 handle data growth?

  A: The appliance is designed with scalable capacity and modular expansion options, allowing storage and performance to scale in line with increasing data volumes without sacrificing backup windows.

• Q: Does NetBackup 5350 support deduplication and encryption?

  A: Yes, it includes data deduplication and encryption features to improve storage efficiency and protect data at rest and in transit, helping meet compliance requirements.

• Q: Is the NetBackup 5350 easy to manage?

  A: Management is centralized via the NetBackup Console with policy-based automation, comprehensive monitoring, and built-in reporting for visibility into backup health and recovery readiness.

• Q: What deployment considerations should I plan for?

  A: Plan for network connectivity to your storage fabric, alignment with existing NetBackup infrastructure, and validation backups to ensure your recovery objectives are met within your RPO/RTO targets.