You might want to in order to do database refreshes by restoring one
machines database backup to another's database.  We currently do that
with tape using the FORCE_MEDIA_RESTORE option in our SSO setup.  I
don't think having separate disks would eliminate this need unless you
wanted to do a 2 stage operation where you first copied an existing
backup disk to disk then did the restore.  Haven't used VTL so perhaps
I'm missing something.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Keating
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But why would you have to?

Just create more virtual drives on the VTL, and give each media server
its own drives.

Save some cash on SSO licenses, and buy more disk. ;o)

Paul

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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 David Rock
> Sent: August 1, 2006 5:58 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using VTL
> 
> The biggest one that no-one has mentioned yet is the ability to share
> resources between media servers.  With VTL, you can use SSO to allow
> multiple media servers access to the same resources just like 
> real tape
> drives.  DSSUs are still confined to the one media server that has
> access to the disk.
>