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Avamar Virtual Edition Backup To NAS Storage Possible ?
Background
Customer has 3 VXRAIL Nodes with 3 Socket running VMware
Customer wants to backup his VMware VM's
We have proposed DPS Suite for VMware 3 Socket License PLUS a DELL NX3240 Storage for Avamar to store the backups
We are being told THIS WILL NOT WORK ! And that we need to have a Data Domain Virtual Edition owning up the capacity of the DELL NX 3240 for this to work
My Question is why do i need a DDVE in the middle - when all I want to do is classic Avamar source based deduplication and backing it up to a NAS Store. (Like the way Veeam software works )
Kindly let me know if technically what we are solutioning works ? And if there are any limitations we need to be aware of ?
Thanks in advance !
Warm regards
ionthegeek
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February 28th, 2019 14:00
I should also point out the most obvious limitation is that the customer's backups will be stored in GSAN. Migrating them to Data Domain later would be a (months) long, painful project.
ionthegeek
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February 28th, 2019 14:00
Ajit Andrew Mohanraj
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March 1st, 2019 00:00
ionthegeek
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March 1st, 2019 06:00
Generating new GSAN backups is not a winning strategy.
Avamar has never supported writing backup data to NFS exports mounted at the OS level. I assume you're referring to having the AVE's VMDKs stored on the NAS device and attached at the VM level.
However, this would still be writing backups to GSAN storage. At this stage, you should not be deploying such a configuration in new environments.