EMC Avamar Administration Interview Questions

EMC Avamar Administration Interview Questions

Question
Whats the difference between avamar and networker ?
Answer
Avamar have his own disk with deduplication , compression. Networker we can take backup via tape , data domain.
Question
Technically how to decide the right product,whether EMC Avamar or EMC Data Domain?
Answer
EMC avamar is the backup tools which comes with the disk where we can take backup by using the features of dedup , compression… EMC data domain is only the disk appliance where we need to configure the data domain with any other backup tools to take the backup
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What are the features of EMC Avamar Administration?
Answer
FASTER BACKUP AND RECOVERY OPTIMIZED BANDWIDTH ONE-STEP RECOVERY HIGH RELIABILITY FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMEN
Question
Does it require any specific hardware
Answer
yes depends upon our capacity requirement. disk will be attached with the avamar.
Question
Can you confirm is there any option available to get the daily automated report with success and failure status.
Answer
yea we can generate the reports daily from avamar itself via SMTP
Question
In What scenario, EMC Networker,Avamar,Data Domain integration happens. Why three kind of backup products from EMC?
Answer
Data domain is not the backup tool… Networker doesnt have the function of taking backup with dedup & we can take backup via tape. but avmar we cannot take backup in tape only disk with dedup… few customer need backup need to take on tape they can go for networker. if they want to take the backup via disk by using networker they can but data domain and configure it with networker
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How the deduplication mechanism works in Avamar,Why do we call Avamar as source based deduplication?
Answer
dedup is elimating the deplicate vaule form the backup.. dedup is the big concept. i ll share u the doc where u can find the dedup function
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What capacity it is scalable upto ?
Answer
Avamar systems scale to 124 TB of deduplicated capacity. newer version its more.