There's a white paper out there when Sun was using a T5220 as a media server streaming to about 6-8 StorageTek 10000 drives. When we refreshed our NetBackup infrastructure in one location, we did something very similar to this where I have a T5220 as a media server streaming to 6 LTO-4 FC drives in our SL500 library. I couldn't be happier with the performance to be honest, this setup flies!
Your biggest performance upgrade though might come from moving your master server off to dedicated hardware and let the master/media server be strictly a media server. Right now my master server is running on an older SunFire v480 and it couldn't be happier. ________________________________ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mellor, Adam A. Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:12 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris good morning, I am Interested in asking the community thier opinions for what hardware platform works best for master only netbackup servers. We currently are running our master in a master media configuration (with two additional media servers) and it is time to refresh the master server hardware. I am going to be performing some tests to benchmark some of the hardware we may use for a replacement master only server. for this i am also interested in some of the tests i can run to give an indication of the server performance. I was thinking of restoing the catalogue to the test hardware and timing some of the more intensive commands such as bpimmedia and bplist. does anybody have other or perhaps even better suggestions ?. I'll post results as i complete tests tests if anybody is interested. At the moment it looks like i'll get to test the Sun M300, T5220 and one of the new Intel Nehalem systems. Thanks Adam M. NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.
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