HP B6960-96035 manual Enterprise environments, Splitting an environment into multiple cells

Enterprise environments

What is an enterprise environment?

A typical enterprise network environment, shown in Figure 9 on page 45, consists of a number of systems from different vendors with different operating systems. The systems may be located in different geographical areas and time zones. All the systems are connected with LAN or WAN networks operating at various communication speeds.

When to use an enterprise environment

This solution can be used when several geographically separated sites require common backup policies to be used. It can also be used when all departments at the same site want to share the same set of backup devices.

Figure 9 Large Data Protector enterprise environment

Configuring and managing backups of such a heterogeneous environment is challenging. Data Protector functionality has been designed to highly simplify this task. For information about the Manager of Managers (MoM), see MoM on page 46.

Splitting an environment into multiple cells

You may decide to split large environments into multiple cells for a number of reasons:

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