Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
I can understand pricing, but I'm curious what options you're looking for in a library that isn't there? Thank you, Rusty -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WALLEBROEK Bart Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:28 AM To: David Magda Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library David, HP fell off quite fast due to their presentation. The sales guy was totally uninterested and could not answer most of the questions. Also their robotic design (which is a relabelled one I believe) was very outdated. With SUN we had other issues. We bought a VTL from them (FalconStor in fact) and had serious issues with it for more than a year. Support was quite bad. This also played a role in the decision. We ran a pure StorageTek environment and were quite happy with it but their new robots were also very outdated compared to the other vendors. Also regarding the price they both were very expensive compared to the other ones. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK -Original Message- From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:27 AM To: WALLEBROEK Bart Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:44, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: > In the end IBM, Quantum and Spectra were the only vendors left that > were any good (HP and SUN fell of quite fast) We choose for Spectra (although it was the more expensive one) for the reason that their robots are far more technologically advanced than the others. And also because of the (very) small footprint and low power consumption (important during these "Green IT" days). Can you explain why "HP and SUN fell of quite fast"? I've dealt with STKs in a couple of places, and never really had any issues with them (the last being 'just' an SL500). At the place I'm currently at there's a Quantum i2000 that's a bit troublesome but, as I've only been here a short time, I'm not sure if that's the library's fault or something else in the environment. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
David, HP fell off quite fast due to their presentation. The sales guy was totally uninterested and could not answer most of the questions. Also their robotic design (which is a relabelled one I believe) was very outdated. With SUN we had other issues. We bought a VTL from them (FalconStor in fact) and had serious issues with it for more than a year. Support was quite bad. This also played a role in the decision. We ran a pure StorageTek environment and were quite happy with it but their new robots were also very outdated compared to the other vendors. Also regarding the price they both were very expensive compared to the other ones. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK -Original Message- From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:27 AM To: WALLEBROEK Bart Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:44, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: > In the end IBM, Quantum and Spectra were the only vendors left that were any > good (HP and SUN fell of quite fast) > We choose for Spectra (although it was the more expensive one) for the reason > that their robots are far more technologically advanced than the others. And > also because of the (very) small footprint and low power consumption > (important during these "Green IT" days). Can you explain why "HP and SUN fell of quite fast"? I've dealt with STKs in a couple of places, and never really had any issues with them (the last being 'just' an SL500). At the place I'm currently at there's a Quantum i2000 that's a bit troublesome but, as I've only been here a short time, I'm not sure if that's the library's fault or something else in the environment. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:44, WALLEBROEK Bart wrote: > In the end IBM, Quantum and Spectra were the only vendors left that were any > good (HP and SUN fell of quite fast) > We choose for Spectra (although it was the more expensive one) for the reason > that their robots are far more technologically advanced than the others. And > also because of the (very) small footprint and low power consumption > (important during these "Green IT" days). Can you explain why "HP and SUN fell of quite fast"? I've dealt with STKs in a couple of places, and never really had any issues with them (the last being 'just' an SL500). At the place I'm currently at there's a Quantum i2000 that's a bit troublesome but, as I've only been here a short time, I'm not sure if that's the library's fault or something else in the environment. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
We have purchased 2 x T950 and 2 x T120 from Spectra replacing our L180's, L700's and PowderHorn. We had our issues with Spectra but this was due to IBM LTO-5's, not due to the robots themselves. Now these issues seem cleared. After 5-6 months, I have to say that the decision to go for Spectra was a good one. In the end IBM, Quantum and Spectra were the only vendors left that were any good (HP and SUN fell of quite fast) We choose for Spectra (although it was the more expensive one) for the reason that their robots are far more technologically advanced than the others. And also because of the (very) small footprint and low power consumption (important during these "Green IT" days). The installation of the T950's was fast and without any issue. The T120's are not yet installed. There support is also good. If you need more info then I'd be happy to assist. Best Regards, Bart WALLEBROEK Backup Admin & Systems & Applications Management & Support Specialist Enterprise Applications Delivery - Infrastructure Management S.W.I.F.T. SCRL -- Message: 10 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:33:04 -0400 From: Ulises Rodriguez Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library To: "'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu'" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven't talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone's experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
We too have moved from Sun StorageTek L180's to Dell ML6000's, which is just a rebadged i500. We've been running 4 of them for three years, had a couple of grippers replaced, and one of the libraries seems to have an dodgy connection to its MAP cartridges so that when you're ejecting tapes you'll occasionally get an error. The libraries have 194 tape slots each and 5 IBM LTO4s and they get worked pretty hard. Compared to the StoTek libraries the import export cycle for tapes is glacial. Mark From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2011 4:31 AM To: Jim VandeVegt; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Jim That was a nice summary. I assume that these are Quantum tape drives? What you say about the tape drives w ith the control path and the serial interface to the library is the same for IBM tape drives and an IBM 3584 tape library. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim VandeVegt Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:41 PM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library We replaced an STK L180 with an i500 about 15 months ago. We went from LTO2 to LTO5. Quantum let us "rent" an LTO3 drive which we used to copy all our long-retention images to the new media. We looked at Spectra too. The Spectra came out a little more expensive and I thought their robot design with the terapacks was too complicated. That being said I haven't heard about any big problems with them. Spectra also wasn't ready to release LTO5 at the time we were buying. The i500 has been working out well for us. The robot's feed rate (how fast it will move tapes around the library & CAP) is not as fast as the STK units, but it gets the job done. The slowness is rarely noticed when doing scheduled backups because we aren't standing there waiting on it. Reliability on the i500 has been good. We had a loose ribbon cable on the robot carriage catch and stop it once that support fixed and believe triggered an engineering fix as well to properly fold and protect the cable. Other than that a couple drives replaced that change out of the back pretty easy. We started out at the lowest service level because it is user-serviceable but got tired of waiting until the next day for parts and upgraded to 7x24x4 service. Only one design flaw I can speak of. The drive-to-library communication channel is rather slow. I think it is a 9.6 kbps serial connection. The robot does not have its own fiber connection - it uses a separate LUN on one of the tape drives - they call it the control path. This means the operation of inventorying the robot in NetBackup uses that slow link. The inventory is maintained on the library, but pulling the information using a drive. Another slow operation is pulling a drive log for support. You access the library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com<mailto:jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com> Insurance for all of us.(tm) health | life | retirement From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez [ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:33 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven't talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone's experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivery to the named recipient, you are notified that any review, distribution, dissemination or copying is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender by return email and delete the message from your computer system. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
The bulk of the responses you are going to get are going to be for the Quantum because they have a much larger market share than SpectraLogic. We have a couple of i500s that we use and haven’t had many issues, nothing major anyway. -Rusty *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Lightner, Jeff *Sent:* Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:54 PM *To:* Len Boyle; Jim VandeVegt; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library We replaced our old HP OEM of the STK L700 in the 3rd quarter of last year with the Quantum i6000 and have been happy with it. The capacity and speed of LTO5 compared with the older Ultriums allowed us to get less drives and still have faster backups. We were able to put two LTO3 in the library to allow us to read our older tapes. Also this model is partitionable so one can allocate different resources to different masters. We have seen oddities with the cleaning tapes complaining about failed memory chips – we’ve seen that 3 times now over the past 9-10 months. Quantum says the last one we sent them at their request had exceeded number of cleanings but I’m not sure I buy that given that their guide shows a completely different message for cleaning life reached.However, this isn’t a big enough issue to sour me on the library itself. -- *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Len Boyle *Sent:* Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:01 PM *To:* Jim VandeVegt; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Jim That was a nice summary. I assume that these are Quantum tape drives? What you say about the tape drives w ith the control path and the serial interface to the library is the same for IBM tape drives and an IBM 3584 tape library. len *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jim VandeVegt *Sent:* Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:41 PM *To:* 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library We replaced an STK L180 with an i500 about 15 months ago. We went from LTO2 to LTO5. Quantum let us "rent" an LTO3 drive which we used to copy all our long-retention images to the new media. We looked at Spectra too. The Spectra came out a little more expensive and I thought their robot design with the terapacks was too complicated. That being said I haven't heard about any big problems with them. Spectra also wasn't ready to release LTO5 at the time we were buying. The i500 has been working out well for us. The robot's feed rate (how fast it will move tapes around the library & CAP) is not as fast as the STK units, but it gets the job done. The slowness is rarely noticed when doing scheduled backups because we aren't standing there waiting on it. Reliability on the i500 has been good. We had a loose ribbon cable on the robot carriage catch and stop it once that support fixed and believe triggered an engineering fix as well to properly fold and protect the cable. Other than that a couple drives replaced that change out of the back pretty easy. We started out at the lowest service level because it is user-serviceable but got tired of waiting until the next day for parts and upgraded to 7x24x4 service. Only one design flaw I can speak of. The drive-to-library communication channel is rather slow. I think it is a 9.6 kbps serial connection. The robot does not have its own fiber connection - it uses a separate LUN on one of the tape drives - they call it the control path. This means the operation of inventorying the robot in NetBackup uses that slow link. The inventory is maintained on the library, but pulling the information using a drive. Another slow operation is pulling a drive log for support. You access the library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- *Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG* Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com <http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com *Insurance for all of us.™* health | life | retirement -- *From:* veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [ veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez [ ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:33 *To:* 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
We replaced our old HP OEM of the STK L700 in the 3rd quarter of last year with the Quantum i6000 and have been happy with it. The capacity and speed of LTO5 compared with the older Ultriums allowed us to get less drives and still have faster backups. We were able to put two LTO3 in the library to allow us to read our older tapes. Also this model is partitionable so one can allocate different resources to different masters. We have seen oddities with the cleaning tapes complaining about failed memory chips – we’ve seen that 3 times now over the past 9-10 months. Quantum says the last one we sent them at their request had exceeded number of cleanings but I’m not sure I buy that given that their guide shows a completely different message for cleaning life reached.However, this isn’t a big enough issue to sour me on the library itself. From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:01 PM To: Jim VandeVegt; 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Jim That was a nice summary. I assume that these are Quantum tape drives? What you say about the tape drives w ith the control path and the serial interface to the library is the same for IBM tape drives and an IBM 3584 tape library. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim VandeVegt Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:41 PM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library We replaced an STK L180 with an i500 about 15 months ago. We went from LTO2 to LTO5. Quantum let us "rent" an LTO3 drive which we used to copy all our long-retention images to the new media. We looked at Spectra too. The Spectra came out a little more expensive and I thought their robot design with the terapacks was too complicated. That being said I haven't heard about any big problems with them. Spectra also wasn't ready to release LTO5 at the time we were buying. The i500 has been working out well for us. The robot's feed rate (how fast it will move tapes around the library & CAP) is not as fast as the STK units, but it gets the job done. The slowness is rarely noticed when doing scheduled backups because we aren't standing there waiting on it. Reliability on the i500 has been good. We had a loose ribbon cable on the robot carriage catch and stop it once that support fixed and believe triggered an engineering fix as well to properly fold and protect the cable. Other than that a couple drives replaced that change out of the back pretty easy. We started out at the lowest service level because it is user-serviceable but got tired of waiting until the next day for parts and upgraded to 7x24x4 service. Only one design flaw I can speak of. The drive-to-library communication channel is rather slow. I think it is a 9.6 kbps serial connection. The robot does not have its own fiber connection - it uses a separate LUN on one of the tape drives - they call it the control path. This means the operation of inventorying the robot in NetBackup uses that slow link. The inventory is maintained on the library, but pulling the information using a drive. Another slow operation is pulling a drive log for support. You access the library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com<mailto:jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com> Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retirement From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez [ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:33 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven’t talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone’s experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. If you are not the intended reci
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
Jim That was a nice summary. I assume that these are Quantum tape drives? What you say about the tape drives w ith the control path and the serial interface to the library is the same for IBM tape drives and an IBM 3584 tape library. len From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jim VandeVegt Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 2:41 PM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library We replaced an STK L180 with an i500 about 15 months ago. We went from LTO2 to LTO5. Quantum let us "rent" an LTO3 drive which we used to copy all our long-retention images to the new media. We looked at Spectra too. The Spectra came out a little more expensive and I thought their robot design with the terapacks was too complicated. That being said I haven't heard about any big problems with them. Spectra also wasn't ready to release LTO5 at the time we were buying. The i500 has been working out well for us. The robot's feed rate (how fast it will move tapes around the library & CAP) is not as fast as the STK units, but it gets the job done. The slowness is rarely noticed when doing scheduled backups because we aren't standing there waiting on it. Reliability on the i500 has been good. We had a loose ribbon cable on the robot carriage catch and stop it once that support fixed and believe triggered an engineering fix as well to properly fold and protect the cable. Other than that a couple drives replaced that change out of the back pretty easy. We started out at the lowest service level because it is user-serviceable but got tired of waiting until the next day for parts and upgraded to 7x24x4 service. Only one design flaw I can speak of. The drive-to-library communication channel is rather slow. I think it is a 9.6 kbps serial connection. The robot does not have its own fiber connection - it uses a separate LUN on one of the tape drives - they call it the control path. This means the operation of inventorying the robot in NetBackup uses that slow link. The inventory is maintained on the library, but pulling the information using a drive. Another slow operation is pulling a drive log for support. You access the library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com<mailto:jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com> Insurance for all of us.(tm) health | life | retirement From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez [ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:33 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven't talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone's experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivery to the named recipient, you are notified that any review, distribution, dissemination or copying is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender by return email and delete the message from your computer system. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library
We replaced an STK L180 with an i500 about 15 months ago. We went from LTO2 to LTO5. Quantum let us "rent" an LTO3 drive which we used to copy all our long-retention images to the new media. We looked at Spectra too. The Spectra came out a little more expensive and I thought their robot design with the terapacks was too complicated. That being said I haven't heard about any big problems with them. Spectra also wasn't ready to release LTO5 at the time we were buying. The i500 has been working out well for us. The robot's feed rate (how fast it will move tapes around the library & CAP) is not as fast as the STK units, but it gets the job done. The slowness is rarely noticed when doing scheduled backups because we aren't standing there waiting on it. Reliability on the i500 has been good. We had a loose ribbon cable on the robot carriage catch and stop it once that support fixed and believe triggered an engineering fix as well to properly fold and protect the cable. Other than that a couple drives replaced that change out of the back pretty easy. We started out at the lowest service level because it is user-serviceable but got tired of waiting until the next day for parts and upgraded to 7x24x4 service. Only one design flaw I can speak of. The drive-to-library communication channel is rather slow. I think it is a 9.6 kbps serial connection. The robot does not have its own fiber connection - it uses a separate LUN on one of the tape drives - they call it the control path. This means the operation of inventorying the robot in NetBackup uses that slow link. The inventory is maintained on the library, but pulling the information using a drive. Another slow operation is pulling a drive log for support. You access the library GUI over Ethernet, and it has to pull the log across that slow link from the drive so you can download it. Takes 20-30 minutes. -- Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com<http://www.physiciansmutual.com/> | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com<mailto:jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com> Insurance for all of us.™ health | life | retirement From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez [ulises.rodrig...@wallst.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:33 To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven’t talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone’s experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivery to the named recipient, you are notified that any review, distribution, dissemination or copying is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender by return email and delete the message from your computer system. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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Uli, I have worked with the Quantum i500 and it has been a very reliable library. In 1 year we had a total of 2 issues with it and they were fixed the next day. Neither issue left the library unusable!!! Management is pretty much set-it and forget-it and operations are fairly simple. BTW = we replaced 2 L700s (27 x LTO2) with 1 i500 (14 x LTO4)J Thank you, Joe Infantino MCP, MCSA, Security+, ITILv3 Senior Systems Analyst Security and Server Operations Intersil Corporation email: jinfant...@intersil.com <mailto:jinfant...@intersil.com> office: 321-724-7119 fax: 321-729-1186 www.intersil.com From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ulises Rodriguez Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:33 PM To: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Library Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven't talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone's experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Tape Library
Hello All, I have the opportunity to take on the project of replacing our old Storagetek L700. The time has come to make a choice either T200 Spectralogic library or Quantum I500. I have been looking at everything as far as all the features/options. I just haven't talk to anyone using any of these in other shops. Vendors always want to visit and talk with their happy clients. Just looking forward to get a general idea on everyone's experiences with these products. Thanks in advance! Uli ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
