We are going to purchase commvault soon and deploy it in our university environment to replace Tivoli. I've been reading the documentation and I see the hardware specs for the data movers and the commserve and the media agents. I've been around the block enough to know that these numbers are usually minimums. Just out of curiousity (and so I don't shoot myself in the foot) what are folks running for these pieces and parts? How much memory and what kind of processors and how many?
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We're looking to convert our entire Tivoli installation in the next year which includes: 40 Winders VMs, 50 Windows servers, 10 AIX servers, 10 Linux servers and 15 Netware servers. We have 4 sql databases to backup, the largest of which is 200 gigs and we have 5 Oracle databases on Windows and 10 on AIX. We currently do 400 gigs a day on the TSM incrementals governed by policy. We are planning on one server for the Commserve and two media agent servers hooked to a DD565 and our tape library. The connection to our LTO library will be through a 1 GIG fiber switch. That's the plan so far.
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Thanks again for your reply.
If you are only going to have two MediaAgents and these are sharing mount paths on a DataDomain appliance and then 1Gb FC connected LTO Library your bottleneck is going to be the LAN rather than CPU or Memory I suspect.
You might wana think about client side compression to improove throughput.
4GB RAM minimum and Dual 3Ghz CPU and multiple 1Gbit LAN connections should do it. Dont forget that x64 will shift it quicker providing you have the bandwith for it to shift on so think about bandwidth because a standard MediaAgent on Gigabit LAN is normally only shifting 175-250GB/h.
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You might wana think about client side compression to improove throughput.
4GB RAM minimum and Dual 3Ghz CPU and multiple 1Gbit LAN connections should do it. Dont forget that x64 will shift it quicker providing you have the bandwith for it to shift on so think about bandwidth because a standard MediaAgent on Gigabit LAN is normally only shifting 175-250GB/h.
regards
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EMCTA & EMCIE - Backup & Recovery
Legato & Commvault Certified Specialist
MCSE
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