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  2. NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
  3. Using instant access with SQL Server
  4. Prerequisites when you configure an instant access SQL Server database
  5. Hardware and configuration requirements of instant access
NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Hardware and configuration requirements of instant access

The following hardware requirements exist for the use of instant access.

Table: Hardware configuration requirement

CPU

Memory

Disk

  • Minimum 2.2-GHz clock rate

  • 64-bit processor

  • Minimum 4 cores; 8 cores recommended. For 64 TBs of storage, the Intel x86-64 architecture requires eight cores.

  • 16 GB (For 8 TB to 32 TB of storage)

    1 GB RAM for 1 TB of storage

  • 32 GB of RAM for more than 32 TB of storage

  • An additional 500MB of RAM for each live mount

Disk size depends on the size of your backup. Refer to the hardware requirements for NetBackup and Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP).

Additional configuration requirements exist for Windows clients that are in a domain. For example, SQL Server clients that use gMSA. For more information about storage server configuration requirements, see the following article:

https://support.cohesity.com/s/article/article-100051793

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