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[Veritas-bu] How Many Media Servers?

2004-10-07 18:56:47
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How Many Media Servers?
From: eyam AT hotmail DOT com (Eliza Yam)
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:56:47 +0000
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<P>A single master server can handle 8 media servers from my experience.&nbsp; 
In your case, they are SAN-media servers.</P>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Gary Aulfinger &lt;gja AT fedex DOT com&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: [Veritas-bu] How Many Media Servers? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:28:35 -0500 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;We are architecting a new backup environment, moving away from a 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;competing product. Our plan has HP rp4440's as an HA pair for 
the 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;master server, and RedHat EL3.0 on HP DL380's for media servers. 
We 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;are expecting each media server to back up about 1TB per night 
via 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;multiple gig-E to fiber-attached Clariion disk arrays. Based on 
the 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;amount of data to back up, we're planning on eight media 
servers. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;The question is, can a single Media server handle that many 
media 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;servers at that density? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;We're projecting a catalog size of about 150-200GB when it's all 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;converted. 
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;Thanks for any input, 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Gary Aulfinger 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;gja AT fedex DOT com 
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