SSO really has no limit, other than that of time and data streaming speeds.

The drives allocation is managed by the master and so at any given time a
single system can have up to 10 drives allocated to it.

Simply you can push 16-20 GB and hour with DLT 7000 drives.  so you can push
160-200 GB and hour, so what do you need to do, how fast do you need to do
it.

SSO should be able to handle it.

In the NT world where there is a problem with the drives being rescanned and
re-added every reboot, so long as you don't change hardware configs or mess
with the switch once it's set you should run fine.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Andres [mailto:mike_andres AT cnt DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 8:16 AM
To: 'Veritas NBU'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape sharing and SAN


Hi, 

     Does anyone know of the number of NT hosts that can concurrently share
a library with 10 DLT7000 tapes?  Is there an officially supported number or
is it based more on rule of thumb?  For instance, is there a point at which
drive contention becomes an issue, i.e. you have more hosts sharing the
library than the number of drives in the library.  Would this necessarily be
a bad thing?  Does anyone have a large shared storage option configuration
in production?  Any help is appreciated.

Mike Andres

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