The V-240 comes with 4 Gb ports on the system board.
This list has documented that most 10Gb solutions can only get about
2.5Gbps, so multi-homing the available NIC's would probably get you better
through put for no extra money.
Bobby Williams
2205 Peterson Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421
423-296-8200
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:51 PM
To: Bobby Williams
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Adequate Media Server hardware to feed 3 LTO3
drives(50 clients)
Or use 10Gbps networking.
Justin.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Bobby Williams wrote:
> I have installed V-240's with 2 CPU's and 8GB RAM with 2 single ported
> HBA's pushing 3 LTO-3's per HBA.
>
> I could consistently get 100MB/sec (as reported by NetBackup bptm
> logs) on 1TB backup streams on 2 drives simultaneously. The other
> drives would be doing some backups, but nothing major.
>
> The biggest problem that you will have is getting the data into the
> media server, not getting it out.
>
> I had to use multiple NIC's (multi-homed) to get the above rates
> concurrently.
>
> You will have to have some beefy clients to be able to send you the
> data fast enough to get good throughput.
>
>
>
>
> Bobby Williams
> 2205 Peterson Drive
> Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421
> 423-296-8200
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:03 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Adequate Media Server hardware to feed 3 LTO3
> drives(50 clients)
>
> Dear NetBackup experts!
>
> I have to select hardware to run a server with several LTO3 drives.
> Each LTO3 drive can run up to 288GB/hour uncompressed - I don't
> believe I can ever get this in a real life.
>
> Questions:
> 1.Should I have each LTO3 on a separate fiber card?
> 2.Is Sun Fire V440 with 4 CPUs and 4G RAM sufficient?
>
> Please share you experience if you can.
>
> Thank you,
> Aleksandr
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