CHAPTER 7 ■ SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES—NETBACKUP
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• The general Media Server is becoming overloaded due to the particular client load.
In order to prevent the purchase of a completely new piece of hardware, the client
causing the issue is converted to a Client/Media Server, thus offloading the
backup load back to the client and freeing resources for the general Media Server.
The combination of both general-purpose and Dedicated Media Servers allows the administrator to
balance the needs of both large and small clients, crafting a solution that meets the needs of the
enterprise as a whole, but is tailored to meet the needs of individual clients. But what happens with the
limits of an individual Storage Domain are reached, and when are new Storage ...