HP Data Protector Software Cell Manager Planning and Sizing

Specifics for small cells ................................................................................................................... 25
Specifics for large cells ................................................................................................................... 26
Maintenance of DCBF directories ..................................................................................................... 26
Variables influencing DCBF behavior are located in the global options file ........................................ 27
Cell Manager hardware aspects to consider ......................................................................................... 28
MS Windows, Red Hat Linux, Suse ES, and Sun Solaris10 ................................................................. 28
Performance pack ...................................................................................................................... 28
Processor ................................................................................................................................... 28
Memory .................................................................................................................................... 29
Disk technology .......................................................................................................................... 29
I/O subsystem ........................................................................................................................... 29
Network adapter teaming ........................................................................................................... 30
HP-UX, Itanium ............................................................................................................................... 30
Cluster support for Data Protector software Cell Manager ....................................................................... 31
Security ............................................................................................................................................ 31
Cell Manager security .................................................................................................................... 31
Client security ................................................................................................................................ 31
User security .................................................................................................................................. 32
Firewall support ............................................................................................................................. 32
IDB space consumption example ......................................................................................................... 33
Cell Manager requirements ................................................................................................................. 35
On systems running HP-UX .............................................................................................................. 35
On systems running Solaris ............................................................................................................. 36
On systems running Windows 2000 or Windows XP ......................................................................... 36
On systems running Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server2008 .................................................. 36
On systems running Linux ................................................................................................................ 37
For more information .......................................................................................................................... 37