They may be dedicated storage nodes. The boat you may be missing could be the 
RTO/RPOI one.

 

Often people look at backup, and forget that you need to restore. e.g., you may 
have an 8 hr backup window, but the RTO could be 1 hr.


Siobhán


 
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:27:30 -0500
> From: anacreo AT GMAIL DOT COM
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Upgrade Time... (7.4.4 to 7.5.1)
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why people have so many storage nodes... 10,
> really?
> 
> I've got a fairly beefy backup environment, about 36TB on the weekends and a
> lot of boxes 100+. And I'm doing this all on a single Sun T5240... doesn't
> even seem to be cracking a sweat.
> 
> Seems to me... any modern machine can handle:
> Atleast 6 1GB NIC's if not 2-4 10gb NIC's... so that's 7-40gb/s
> inbound...
> Atleast 2-4 dual ported 4gb HBA's... So that's 16gb/s outbound...
> 
> And a modern 4x4 Intel server or a 100+ coolthread Sun server can easily
> move that much bandwidth...
> 
> So why so many boxes?
> 
> 
> Are all the storage nodes regional -- if so, I completely understand.
> Are all these storage nodes for doing snapshot backups (which I've learned
> to despise and not value at all)?
> Is it because you're using a Windows infrastructure?
> Or Legacy?
> 
> Am I missing a boat somewhere?
> 
> Chester, can you explain why you have 10 storage nodes to solve my
> curiosity?
> 
> Alec
> 
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> > In regard to: [Networker] Upgrade Time... (7.4.4 to 7.5.1), Chester
> > Martin...:
> >
> > I have two questions:
> >>
> >> 1) Do the networker server and all the storage nodes need to run
> >> the same version? I have over 10 storage nodes and didn't know whether
> >> or not I needed to upgrade all of them at the same time.
> >>
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > 2) Is there anything important I'm leaving out?
> >>
> >
> > Most upgrade documents recommend you check client indexes and the media
> > database before doing an upgrade
> >
> > nsrck -L6
> > nsrim -vX
> >
> > Tim
> > --
> > Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu
> > Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice)
> > Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax)
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> >
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