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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring and managing universal shares
  4. Advanced features of universal shares
  5. Universal share accelerator for data deduplication
  6. Preparing NetBackup for the universal share accelerator
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Preparing NetBackup for the universal share accelerator

Retrieve the AWS, Azure S3, or blob account and keys to create the MSDP Cloud LSU.

The disk size for the universal share accelerator local disk cache (<storage-path>) should be at least 500GB. The amount of disk is used as the local disk cache of universal share accelerator, it should be a good performance disk. It can be a mount point with separate disk or one folder of existing mount point. If the local disk cache or storage is shared with other applications or systems, NetBackup ensures that it can use the configured amount of disk space. The cloud cache size (CloudCacheSize) can be found in <storage-path>/etc/puredisk/vpfsd_config.json.

Cohesity recommends the use of separate mount points for the universal share accelerator.

Ensure the following:

  • You have sufficient, free usable space for the universal share accelerator if it uses a shared disk or mount point with other applications.

  • You use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) as the client hostname.

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