Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4
Hi, I currently have a similar setup, LTO-3 and one LTO-4 drive in a test SL500 robot. I remember doing a something similar with an L700 back in the day with LTO-2 drives and STK 9840s, it had a lot of issues in that environment (L700), although I did not set that one up originally. For the SL500, I have not noticed any issues to date (I have a single global scratch pool and it picks the correct tape for each drive) even when I have multiple storage units (LTO-3,LTO-4) in the same group. Would I recommend this without thorough and extensive testing? Probably not. Justin. On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Grigore Petrisor wrote: Hi I want to know if there is a possibility to mix LTO2 and LTO4 drives and media in the same library StorageTek SL500 with Netbackup 5.1. If there is documentation for this ... pls i want to know TY ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4
Hello, I would not recommend to mix LTO2 and LTO4, better go completely with LTO4 or LTO3, you can configure LTO3 tape drives to read and write LTO2 tape media. When I was planing to mix LTO2 and LTO3 tape drives on SL500, I was told by STK engineers, I would need to have a converter in the tape drive canisters for LTO2 tape drives, and it would cost a lot more extra to compare LTO3 and LTO4 tape drives. Better to have a smaller unit like SL24 with LTO3/SAS tape drives and configure them in hcart2 on NetBackup, I don't think you can buy LTO2 tape drives anymore. Boris On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Grigore Petrisor edy2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I want to know if there is a possibility to mix LTO2 and LTO4 drives and media in the same library StorageTek SL500 with Netbackup 5.1. If there is documentation for this ... pls i want to know TY ___ 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] mixing LTO2 and LTO4
You can do it. Use HCART2 drive and media type for LTO2 and HCART for LTO4. Configured the appropriate barcode rules and you are ok. This may be helpful http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336024.htm From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Grigore Petrisor Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:19 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4 Hi I want to know if there is a possibility to mix LTO2 and LTO4 drives and media in the same library StorageTek SL500 with Netbackup 5.1. If there is documentation for this ... pls i want to know TY ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4
Affirmed, recently integrated with existing LTO II drives in SL8500 library. Barcode rules are important as well, make sure the suffixes are modified from L2 to L4, If you don't you'll have problems in legacy migration tape copies. -sj smpt sm...@peppas.gr 3/3/2010 8:40 AM You can do it. Use HCART2 drive and media type for LTO2 and HCART for LTO4. Configured the appropriate barcode rules and you are ok. This may be helpful http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/336024.htm From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Grigore Petrisor Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:19 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] mixing LTO2 and LTO4 Hi I want to know if there is a possibility to mix LTO2 and LTO4 drives and media in the same library StorageTek SL500 with Netbackup 5.1. If there is documentation for this ... pls i want to know TY ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
