Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives & Windows

We occasionally get an sso drive locked on our win2003 system, but it’s always the netapp that won’t let the drive go.

David Spearman

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday-02-March- 2011 11:43 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives & Windows

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Donaldson, Mark <Mark.Donaldson AT staples DOT com> wrote:

A couple versions back, both versions of OS & versions of NetBackup,
there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While
officially supported many people reported problems with device
ownership. Windows was somewhat "grabby" and liked to possess shared
devices rather than happily share them.

We're probably starting a process now with the upcoming 7.1 and our
first implementation of Windows servers as media servers (either Win2003
or Win2008 depending on when they're built).

What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5)
between Windows & Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers?

We have been sharing drives for years between Windows and Solaris. Recently we also added NetApp in the SSO environment. It all works well. We're about to find out how well Linux plays in the sandbox. I don't think we've had an SSO issue in a long time.

.../Ed

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