Unless things have changed since December... SSO licenses are per server. There is, however, a per drive SHARED DRIVE license.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Forester, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:16 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options Something else to bear in mind: Unless things have changed recently, and I have an email from Veritas to support this, SSO licenses are licensed per drive. If you have 5 drives that you are sharing, you need 5 SSO licenses. If this is not, in fact, the case, I'll need to find new Veritas reps. I dearly wish that they'd simplify their licensing! Justin King wrote: >1. I'm not familiar with the specific devices, but you should probably >be okay with a single dedicated 'backup' HBA. > >2. You'll need a SAN Media Server license and SSO license for each >media server you want you backup over the SAN > >3. (see above) > >4. I have 5-6 Linux SAN Media servers (RH73, CentOS3 & CentOS4) - they >work great. > > > >________________________________ > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, >Jonathan (Contractor) >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:49 AM >To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options > > > >All, > > > >We're running 5.1 MP4 on Windows and UNIX (Solaris 2.8) here, and with >all the budget money flying around I'm looking into adding the SSO >Option. Basically, I would like to add our ATL to the SAN Switch and >have our larger capacity file and database servers then SSO themselves >a free drive and write directly to it. > > > >Essentially replacing > > > >SAN (DATA) --> Client --> 1GB Nic --> Media Server --> (SCSI) >ATL/DRIVE# > > > >with > > > >SAN (DATA) --> Client --> SAN --> ATL/DRIVE# > > > >I have a few questions. > > > >#1 - Does running both the Storage Device (Hitachi AMS 500) and SSOing >a drive on in the ATL affect performance? I'm assuming I can easily >drive our SDLT220 drives to capacity using this method, but should I >use two HBAs? (I'm assuming no.) > > > >#2 - Does every server that wants to "grab" a drive need a media server >license? I would only be using these servers daily to run their own >backups - not others. Is this that SSO Media Server license I hear >mentioned every once and a while? > > > >#3 - What's involved in upgrading my regular old Master / Media servers >to SSO (from a software perspective?) Do I have to upgrade everything >to SSO, or simply add a few new SSO Media servers to my current setup? > > > >#4 - Does anyone run SSO on Redhat Linux AS 3? Several of our larger >databases are now Oracle on Linux. > > > >Thanks all! > > > >-Jonathan > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >_______________________________________________ >Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > -- Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu