Unless any of this is deemed business critical, then it's a waste of money! I only have 2 SAN Media Servers, hold approx 2TB of data each, and these are deemed Business Critical - Therefore, these machines are treated as backups over fibre to increase performance.
Remainder of our clients are backed up over LAN. (some clients hold 500GB of Data and backups take around 5-6 hours if quiet). Yes Tape drives will be a problem, unless you tune Netbackup and the backup windows to share the drives. With SAN Media, you also get the option to implement SSO - yes another cost - to share a library!! Hmm.... Money is suddenly going... ! Regards Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support Windows Domain Administrator EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bob Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 March 2006 18:12 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] media server cutoff point A client is currently using 150GB as the threshold for determining whether a server should be a NetBackup media server or client. This results in 30 SAN media servers using SSO and 730 clients that are multiplexed in about 70 policies. The environment is the large STK SL8500 with 20 9940B tape drives The client is converting all NetBackup clients that have over 36GB of data into media servers. stop laughing....This is serious. Please help me demonstrate the folly of this proposal. tape-drives will be shoeshining as the media servers will not be able to get the data to the drives fast enough license fees will be astronomical for SAN media servers tape drives will not be available when needed and jobs will fail with 134/196 errors the number of tapes will increase since media servers do not share tapes The number of policies will cause bpsched to crunch continually The catalog backup will never start or finish. other reasons...please _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of EADS Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind EADS Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. EADS Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
