Another vote for SSO. Whoever dedicated the 2 drives per server doesn't understand SSO. The person that suggested they were "conservative" was being too kind. The adjectives I would use for them would suggest they rode the short bus to school.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jayles Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Option for LTO3 drives mdonaldson wrote: > > This isn't the case. SSO is used to share a single tape drive among > multiple media servers. It's the sharing & locking mechanism for device > sharing. I could have zoned my 20 drives, one each, to my 19 media > servers and not needed SSO. What Judy describes is right, though, if I > lose the drive zoned to that server, it's not doing backups until that > drive is repaired. > > If you've got SSO licensed, I suggest zoning all tape drives to all > media servers (careful - you have to name them correctly via tpconfig or > it doesn't work right). You can them limit the number of drives used by > each media server when the backup occurs via the max-drives setting I > the storage unit (as Judy also said). > > -M > > What you mentioned is correct.... I sell SSO to my customer too.... In his scenario, suggest to review the whole backup infra, the Share Storage Option is not cheap and do not waste money to purchase if no requirement. Review the infra specially with the resources of the tape drives, then review your backup window. I believe there might be alot of redunacy. Good luck mate! [Wink] _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu[/quote] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
