>From my latest VTL Quote its called Netbackup 6.0 Virtual Tape Option - 1TB Usable Capacity SKU: 16006C-000000 Pricing: $793, $162 1 YR Support
If I'm not mistaken you have to purchase SSO Media Server licenses for everything else that wants to write to the VTL. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Koster, Phil" Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:30 PM To: veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Licensing Question - Phys. Drives vs. VirtualDrives That makes sense. So you just license the TB of storage the device has (the one providing the VTL; in your case the PathlightVX)? The proposal we got for this was a Sun/StorageTEK solution that involved a VTA-1000 from Peak Data with 5TB of "cache" and an IBM SL500 with 4 LTO-3's on the backend. I'm not terribly impressed by their proposal overall but if we want to purchase a different solution we have to be able to shoot them down in front of the City Commission (I hate working for local government) because they are the cheapest by like $150K. One of senior managers is looking heavily to me for the license answers (aside of the usual technical recommendation) but I don't have direct access to our approved vendors. Do you by chance know what they call that license? I tried looking on Symantec's web site and they do not actually list any NBU licensing requirements with any useful detail. Just the "Agents and Options". Thanks. Huge help (unlike Symantec's web site). Phil 456-3136 -----Original Message----- From: Robin Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:09 PM To: veritas-bu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU Licensing Question - Phys. Drives vs. Virtual Drives We're using something like that, an ADIC PathlightVX. It's in front of a library with only 2 LTO-3 drives (soon to be 4). We have 14 virtual drives configured on the PVX (12 of which are going out to 6 san media servers -- two each --, so they back themselves up across FC). It's licensed by the TB, through a VTL license, instead of by virtual tape drive. I think we're only paying for the VTL licenses (8TB) -- for that portion of our backup config, the two physical drives on the back end aren't covered, since they don't ever touch a media/master, only our PVX. Hope that made sense.. ~ Robin >>> "Koster, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/24/06 8:41 AM >>> We got bids in for new back up solutions and one of them proposes 16 virtual tape drives but only 4 physical LTO- 3 drives. Does anyone know off the top of their head how that would work? (Would we need 16 tape drive licenses to go along with all the clients etc?). There would not be any addition of media servers or clients. The proposal is basically a proprietary SAN set up that has up to 32 VTD emulation channels to interface with NBU, NBU would not be able to use it as a DSSU, and NBU will not have direct access to the LTO- 3's, only the VTDs. Thanks. Phil Koster Network Administrator City of Grand Rapids Direct: 616- 456- 3136 Helpdesk: 456- 3999 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu