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| What is avamar ? |
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| Avamar is efficient disk based backup with data deduplication. |
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| What is Avamar component ? |
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| There are three component like Avamar Server,backup client,Avamar administrator |
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| What is avamar backup process ? |
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| Avamar server ran mcs & it send initiation request to client Avagent, Avagent send request to avtar, avtar check gsan at storage node and send data to avamar sever. |
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| WHat is RAIN ? |
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| Redundant array independet Node. |
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| Basic avamar teminology? means terms used in avamar ? |
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| There are three component like Avamar Server,backup client,Avamar administrator. |
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| How it works? |
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| Avamar server ran mcs >>send initiation request to client Avagent >>it send request to avtar >> avtar check gsan at storage node and send data to avamar sever for backup |
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| How avamar defers from the Data Domain? What is the difference in between these two ? |
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| Both of them are dedupe technologies, but the biggest difference is that avamar dedupes at the client level. Data domain dedupes at the networker server/storage node level. |
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| What is avamar backup process ? |
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| Avamar server ran mcs >>send initiation request to client Avagent >>it send request to avtar >> avtar check gsan at storage node and send data to avamar sever for backup. |
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| How many raid level supported? |
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| Avamar is dedup technology , it follows the normal traditional raid level configured on client but OS disk are in raid 1. |
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| Both NAS and SAN based backup possible ? |
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| It is Networked base backup. |
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| How Avamar differes with other? |
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| Avamar differs from traditional backup and restore solutions by identifying and storing only unique, subfile data objects. |
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| Does avamar support backup on tape library? |
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| This is disk base backup only. |
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| So avamar is completly disk based backup.What will happen if disks are full.what is the maximum capacity to hold/what is the retention periods available? |
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| It will notify us after reaching threshold value, so we can plan for upgrade of node cluster. |
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| How will it stand in market as ORACLE SOL-11 already provide this solution for free, dedupe inbuit, If licence will cost us why shall client buy it.. |
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| Avamar is backup with deduplication feature, |
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| As backup is done on host level that is our SEVER, it will consume our CPU and memory and degrade our performance. How is this good then ? |
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| Avamar is different h/w with own OE for diskbased backup with dedup feature without impacting server performance |
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| What is the function of data storage? |
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| Data objects storage :- HAshes are used to store data & find data objects then >both has chunks are stored distributed across all the storage nodes. |
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| Explain about object in Avamar ? |
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| In the Avamar system, an object is a single instance of deduplicated data. Each Avamar object inherently has a unique ID. Objects are stored and managed within stripes on the Avamar server. |
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| What is the maximum retention period available in avamar? |
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| maximum retention period is infinite in avamar. |
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| How can we add SQL client with this? |
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| please refer admin guide of SQL client |
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| Explain replication feature of Avamar ? |
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| Replication is a feature that enables efficient, encrypted and asynchronous replication of data stored in an Avamar server to another Avamar server deployed in remote locations without the need to ship tapes. |
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| How we administer Avamar ? |
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| It is GUI based avamar administration utility accessed through browser. |
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| What is AV agent |
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| Avagent is client level daemon which communicate with avtar in client. |
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| What kind of backup are supported ? |
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| It is taking first time full then taking incremental. |
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| Does this also support compression as well? |
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| yes , its support. |
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| What is minimum retention period ? |
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| One week. and default retention is 60 days .. |
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| What is hashing ? |
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| Hashing is process of creating short fixed length data string from large block of data. it uses SHA-1 hashing algo . |
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| Is it possible to integrate the Avamar with NetVault Backup Software? |
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| no , |
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| Size of available nodes in Avamar Gen 4 |
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| 1.3 TB , 2.6 TB, 3.9TB, 7.8TB sizes are available |
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| Explain about dpn node. |
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| DPN summary reports provide info about data stored in avamar server and statistical data for each client backup. |
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| Explain about processes running o avamar server and client ? |
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| Avamar administrator server (MCS) & avamar data server (gsan) run on avamar server avaagent and avtar processes run on avamar client. |
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| Is Avamar a hardware backup solution or hardware-cum-software backup solution ? |
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| Avamar is hardware-cum-software backup dedup solution. |
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| How to login first time in Avamar administration console |
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| Login use mcuser account to login by default Psswd is MCUser1. |
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| EMC already having EMC Networker as backup solution. then what is the need of Avamar… any benefits. |
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| Avamar is backup software having NAS based dedup backup feature. it is basically a deduplication technology. it is backups and restore solution to identify and store only unique subfile data objects. |
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| Do customers have a choice if they wish to go either only for hardware or only software or both ? |
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| It is complete solution having own H/W and S/W. |
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