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The fibre channel fabric-based Storage Area Network (SAN) has rapidly emerged, over the last 5 years, as the new paradigm in distributed storage access. They leverage high speed, low latency fibre channel technology; provide centralized storage management; and offer significantly improved backup and recovery
Kanatek is at the forefront of architecting, testing and deploying SAN implementations
SAN solutions are Cost effective, Highly Available, scalable and based on a modular design. Kanatek takes a measured, rational approach to SAN architecture and deployment: it utilizes only proven technologies; focuses on scalability and creating a foundation for future growth; and it emphasizes reliability and technology investment protection every step of the way. SANs were traditionally designed for applications such as database-management systems and online transaction processing programs, which demand block-level disk access rather than file-level access. SANs consolidate data into shared storage arrays and remove the storage burden from your servers, linking the arrays, servers, and backup tape libraries into a back-end network. SANs typically are Fibre Channel based, and a Fibre Channel switching fabric (such as the one provided by Brocade) or hubs tie the devices together. Working with a federal government agency, based in Ottawa , Kanatek developed a highly available architecture in a self-contained Symantec NetBackup domain comprised of one master server and three media servers.
The client needed a Highly Available solution and also needed to minimize LAN based backups to alleviate the bottleneck caused by LAN performance. The Symantec NetBackup SAN option allowed the client to perform backups of critical servers over the SAN, eliminating the impact on the LAN. The SAN option also allowed the sharing of a Tape Library between servers and provided advanced capabilities including LAN-less and Server-Free backups.
Symantec NetBackup
Shared Storage Option (SSO) is a heterogeneous
SAN-ready storage solution working on both UNIX
and Windows. It enables dynamic sharing of individual
tape drives—standalone or in an automated tape
library—by "virtualizing" tape resources.
Symantec NetBackup SSO reduces overall costs
by providing better hardware utilization and
optimization of resources during backup and recovery
operations.
Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server is used to locally backup large applications. Symantec NetBackup SAN Media server may share a tape library with the Master server over a SAN when combines with Symantec Shared Storage Option.
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