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HP D2D Backup Systems
Best practices for VTL, NAS and
Replication implementations
Table of contents
Abstract
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Related products
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Validity
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Executive summary
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General D2D best practices at a glance
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VTL best practices at a glance
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NAS best practices at a glance
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HP StoreOnce Technology
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Replication overview
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Housekeeping overview
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Upstream and Backup Application considerations
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Data compression and encryption backup application features
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Network configuration
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Single Port mode
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Dual Port mode
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High availability port mode (Port failover)
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High availability port mode (Link Aggregate)
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10Gbit Ethernet ports on the 4312/4324 appliances
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Network configuration for CIFS AD
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Backup server networking
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