All,
 
We're running 5.1 MP4 on Windows and UNIX (Solaris 2.8) here, and with
all the budget money flying around I'm looking into adding the SSO
Option.  Basically, I would like to add our ATL to the SAN Switch and
have our larger capacity file and database servers then SSO themselves a
free drive and write directly to it.
 
Essentially replacing
 
SAN (DATA) --> Client --> 1GB Nic --> Media Server --> (SCSI) ATL/DRIVE#
 
with
 
SAN (DATA) --> Client --> SAN --> ATL/DRIVE#
 
I have a few questions.
 
#1 - Does running both the Storage Device (Hitachi AMS 500) and SSOing a
drive on in the ATL affect performance?  I'm assuming I can easily drive
our SDLT220 drives to capacity using this method, but should I use two
HBAs? (I'm assuming no.)
 
#2 - Does every server that wants to "grab" a drive need a media server
license?  I would only be using these servers daily to run their own
backups - not others.  Is this that SSO Media Server license I hear
mentioned every once and a while?
 
#3 - What's involved in upgrading my regular old Master / Media servers
to SSO (from a software perspective?)  Do I have to upgrade everything
to SSO, or simply add a few new SSO Media servers to my current setup?
 
#4 - Does anyone run SSO on Redhat Linux AS 3?  Several of our larger
databases are now Oracle on Linux.
 
Thanks all!
 
-Jonathan
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