We have an E5500 that has 18 SDLT's, and it will push 14 simultaneous.
It has trunked gig, 8 cpus's, and 6gb RAM.  Of course a loaded 440 will
outperform that box now, so it should be easy enough to do what you're
asking.

~JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Adam Porter
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:13 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Performance: Single server, multiple jukeboxes?
> 
> We've outgrown our Sun StorEdge L40 with 2 DLT7000 drives and 40
slots.
>    Our Netbackup Datacenter server is also old and failing.  We will
be
> upgrading NBU 3.4.1 to 5.0, adding a 2-drive SDLT jukebox (keeping the
> old jukebox too) and replacing the server.
> 
> Originally, I thought we might buy 2 servers (possibly Linux-based
dual
> Xeons), one to drive each jukebox.  But Veritas licensing structure &
> costs may make this expensive.
> 
> Our existing jukebox can write at 10MB/sec with both drives spinning.
> The new jukebox will hopefully write at 64-72MB/sec with both drives
> spinning.
> 
> If I sufficiently beef up a single server with dual-channel SCSI (i.e.
> Adaptec 39160) and extra RAM, could I use a single server to drive
both
> jukeboxes?  This should be cheaper (I could use my existing single
> server license) and simpler to manage, but I don't want performance to
> suffer and I'm assuming the 160MB/sec SCSI connection won't be a
> bottleneck.  (This also assumes we'll be able to implement a gigabit
> backup LAN that performs fast enough to push both jukeboxes.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Adam
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