Considerations for provisioning IBM Storage Protect servers to handle backup of IBM Storage Scale file systems

When backing up IBM Storage Scale file systems, the IBM Storage Protect server must be configured with adequate resources to handle a larger load of client data, sessions, and mount points than typically encountered with single-user file systems such as workstations.

For cluster file system backup, a system architect must plan for multiple nodes (storage hosts) sending data in multiple streams, at high data rates to the server. Therefore, the IBM Storage Protect server must be equipped with the following:

• High bandwidth network connections to the IBM Storage Scale cluster

• The sufficient disk space organized into an IBM Storage Protect storage pool to be allocated to backup data from the cluster file system

• Sufficient number of mount points (or infinite for a disk class pool) accorded to the proxy client used for the cluster file system

• Sufficient number of IBM Storage Protect sessions permitted to the proxy client used for the cluster file system

• A sufficient number of physical tape drives to offload the backup data once it arrives into the disk pool