Thanks for the reply Jeff.

The single-mode fiber is fine for what I am want to try.

I am going with Neterion Xframe II network cards.

Any one else want to share information/opinion on back-to-back connection
for cloning/staging, will it or wont it work?

Cheers

Kev


On Tue, 13 May 2008 08:57:36 -0500, Jeff Mery <jeff.mery AT NI DOT COM> wrote:

>I can't see how it wouldn't work as long as the communications are setup
>to use the 10GbE connection.  Systems in B would need to backup to that
>storage node over the "public" and then the storage node would need to be
>sure to clone over the private network between it at the Networker server.
>
>The bigger question would be can the fiber between the "rooms" support
>10GbE over the distance you need to go?  We're in the process of shuffling
>one of our data centers around and came to find out that we had to run
>additional 9um single-mode fiber between our buildings to guarantee 10GbE
>speeds.  All our single-mode was used up and the multi-mode wouldn't cut
>it.
>
>Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
>National Instruments
>
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>From:
>Kevin West <kevin.west AT UNE.EDU DOT AU>
>To:
>NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Date:
>05/12/2008 04:28 PM
>Subject:
>[Networker] Back-to-back 10Gb
>
>
>
>Hi People
>
>Just a quick question to see if this is possible.
>
>We have two server rooms (lets call them room A and room b).
>
>All the backup infrastructure is in room A (Server, Tape library & D2D
>unit).
>
>The network connection between the to locations at the moment is not the
>best. Which is slowing the backups down as the amount of systems and data
>in
>room B increase.
>
>My plan is to put a storagenode with D2D unit in room B to backup the
>systems locally first. Then Clone/Stage the data to the tape library in
>room A.
>
>There is an unused SC fibre between rooms (no one tell our network people
>of
>my plan).
>
>My question is can I use the SC fibre as a back-to-back connection (direct
>connection between server & storagenode) using 10Gb's network cards and
>can
>the Clone/Staging data be directed to use this only?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Kev
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