Unless things have changed since December... SSO licenses are per
server. There is, however, a per drive SHARED DRIVE license.



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Something else to bear in mind:  Unless things have changed recently, 
and I have an email  from Veritas to support this, SSO licenses are 
licensed per drive.  If you have 5 drives that you are sharing, you need

5 SSO licenses.

If this is not, in fact, the case, I'll need to find new Veritas reps.  
I dearly wish that they'd simplify their licensing!

Justin King wrote:

>1. I'm not familiar with the specific devices, but you should probably 
>be okay with a single dedicated 'backup' HBA.
>
>2. You'll need a SAN Media Server license and SSO license for each 
>media server you want you backup over the SAN
>
>3. (see above)
>
>4. I have 5-6 Linux SAN Media servers (RH73, CentOS3 & CentOS4) - they 
>work great.
>
> 
>
>________________________________
>
>From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,

>Jonathan (Contractor)
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:49 AM
>To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options
>
> 
>
>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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Lockheed Martin Information Technology
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