Author: Athanasios Douitsis <aduitsis AT NOC.NTUA DOT GR>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:46:51 +0200
Hello all, I am trying to bump up the speed on my SDLT320...unfortunately I can't get past the 3 something MB/s barrier although the nic's on both the server and the client are Gigabit Ethernet. Any
Author: Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:10:29 -0500
Run a bigasm test on your backup server/storage node (bigasm test details in EMC performance guide) this will show if you can obtain more than 3MB/s if this is ok then run the test on your networker
Author: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:53:58 -0500
What happens when you increase the number of sessions per drive? Or increase the server's parallelism. I've found dramatic improvement in drive speed when even a couple of more sessions are running.
Author: John Stoffel <john.stoffel AT TAEC.TOSHIBA DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:13:30 -0500
Check your SCSI cables, and your bootup messages on your server. Also, try to run a tar or dd to a blank tape in the drive with a couple of gigs of nicely random data to the drive. What speed do you