Ian,
Similar environment, hassle free - NBU 5.1 MP4 SLES 9 Media Servers,
SL8500 w/HP LTO II tapes drive.
I'd suggest keeping up with the StorageTek (Sun) ACSLS PTF's. Prior to
updating with the below, we had seen
out of sync vol ser location issues between the library and ACSLS (must
be installed in the order shown):
PUT0601S Roll up of all previous fixes to ACSLS 7.1
PTF843640S Improvements to error handling and recovery when sending
messages using inter-process commmunications(ipc).
PTF844161S Audit corrects the cell status for an empty cell that is
marked as full in the cell table.
PTF843843S 1) Double close bug in CSI process is sporadically closing
file descriptors acoss threads and causing EBADF errors. 2) ACSLS only
prints 5. network errors from the RPC client creation, not the actual
RPC call.
PTF814256S Event Notification - notifies clients with events that were
not reported earlier.
PTF843889S Support ACSLS /HA solution by providing improved monitoring
capability for HLI-attached library communication. May also be installed
in a non-HA environment.
PTF844398S Acsss_config is creating bogus drive! table records for
empty drive slots in an empty panel
PTF847481S Fix for the Sun StorageTek mchanger driver when used with
the Sun leadville driver for fibre-attach libraries.
PTF845690S When marking the volume absent, we will not clear the ACS
ID.
Scott J.
>>> "Clooney, David" <david.clooney at bankofamerica.com> 7/20/2006 7:36
AM >>>
Ian
Previously I have worked in an NBU environment predominantly using
RHEL3
Linux and found it to be hassle free, this was using 5.1 through to
6.0
MP2, Additionally the same environment was using disk staging with a
few
1TB disks, again no hassle, few issues with bpduplicate on 5.1 MP3 ,
but
this was across Linux and HP-UX , a new bpduplicate binary sorted this
out along with a MP4 , which enables a few more features regarding
disk
staging.
Regards
Dave
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Are Linux media servers OK to use?
Hi all,
We are looking at connecting up several Linux media servers running
either
RHEL3 or RHEL4, and wanting to know what people think of them. The
hardware will probably be IBM Intel servers. Our environment is NBU
6.0
with STK PowderHorn and SL8500 tape libraries, with 9940 and T10000
tape
drives.
Has anyone go any/many of these in their environments, and if so, what
do you think of them. Is throughput good? Do they have many issues?
We will be connecting a few TB of disk to them to use as a disk
staging
pool, and then off-loading the data onto tape (DSSU).
Thanks in advance.
Ian Fehring
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