HP D2D D2D Best Practices for VTL, NAS and Replication implementations (EH985- - Page 2

Fibre Channel configuration ...19 Fibre Channel topologies ...19 Switched fabric...19 Direct Attach (Private Loop) ...20 Zoning...20 Fibre Channel configuration via Web Management Interface 21 Best practices for network and Fibre Channel configuration 22 VTL best practices ...25 Summary of best practices...25 Tape library emulation ...25 Backup application configuration ...27 Rotation schemes and retention policy 28 D2D NAS best practices...30 Introduction to D2D NAS backup targets 30 Overview of NAS best practices ...30 Choosing NAS or VTL for backup ...30 Shares and deduplication stores ...31 Maximum concurrently open files ...31 Backup application configuration ...32 Housekeeping impact on maximum file size selection 37 CIFS share authentication...38 VTL and NAS - Data source performance bottleneck identification 44 Performance tools...44 Performance metrics on the Web Management Interface 44 How to use the D2D storage and deduplication ratio reporting metrics 46 D2D Replication ...48 D2D replication overview...48 Best practices overview...48 Replication usage models...49 What to replicate ...52 Appliance, library and share replication fan in/out 53 Concurrent replication jobs ...54 Limiting replication concurrency ...54 WAN link sizing ...54 Seeding and why it is required ...55 Seeding methods in more detail ...57 Replication and other D2D operations 65 Replication Monitoring...67 2