HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5

Advanced Backup to Disk

Performance White Paper

Executive Summary ..............................................................................................................................

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Objective and Target Audience .............................................................................................................

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Introducing HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5 .............................................................................

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File Library ......................................................................................................................................

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Object Copy ...................................................................................................................................

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Tape Drives.........................................................................................................................................

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Basics of Backup Performance...............................................................................................................

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Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) Data Protection Architecture ......................................................................

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Test Data ..........................................................................................................................................

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HPCreateData ...............................................................................................................................

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Typical Files ..................................................................................................................................

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Small Files.....................................................................................................................................

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HPReadData..................................................................................................................................

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Configuration....................................................................................................................................

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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Server..........................................................................................................

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HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5 ........................................................................................

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Internal Database (IDB) Logging Level ...........................................................................................

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File Library ................................................................................................................................

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File System Tree Walk.................................................................................................................

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HP StorageWorks SDLT 320 Tape Drive ...........................................................................................

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HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 Tape Drive ........................................................................................

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HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive ........................................................................................

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HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1000 (MSA1000) ................................................................

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HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1500 (MSA1500) ................................................................

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RAID 0 and 1 Logical Array ........................................................................................................

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RAID 0 and 4 Logical Arrays .......................................................................................................

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RAID 1 and 1 Logical Array ........................................................................................................

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RAID 1+0 and 3 Logical Arrays ...................................................................................................

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RAID 5 and 2 Logical Arrays .......................................................................................................

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Test Data.......................................................................................................................................

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Library and Tape Tools ...................................................................................................................

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