*SIGH*

We've got some Symantec folks coming on-site next week, so I'll have to 
get another statement from them about the licensing.  It's such a moving 
target.

Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:

>Unless things have changed since December... SSO licenses are per
>server. There is, however, a per drive SHARED DRIVE license.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jack
>Forester, Jr.
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:16 PM
>To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options
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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
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>5 SSO licenses.
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>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!
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>Justin King wrote:
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>>1. I'm not familiar with the specific devices, but you should probably 
>>be okay with a single dedicated 'backup' HBA.
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>>2. You'll need a SAN Media Server license and SSO license for each 
>>media server you want you backup over the SAN
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>>3. (see above)
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>>4. I have 5-6 Linux SAN Media servers (RH73, CentOS3 & CentOS4) - they 
>>work great.
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>>________________________________
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>>From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>>[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
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>>Jonathan (Contractor)
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:49 AM
>>To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options
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>>All,
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>>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.
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>>Essentially replacing
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>>SAN (DATA) --> Client --> 1GB Nic --> Media Server --> (SCSI) 
>>ATL/DRIVE#
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>>with
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>>SAN (DATA) --> Client --> SAN --> ATL/DRIVE#
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>>I have a few questions.
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>>#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.)
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>>#2 - Does every server that wants to "grab" a drive need a media server
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>>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?
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>>#3 - What's involved in upgrading my regular old Master / Media servers
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>>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?
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>>#4 - Does anyone run SSO on Redhat Linux AS 3?  Several of our larger 
>>databases are now Oracle on Linux.
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>>Thanks all!
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>>-Jonathan
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