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I have just installed a ADIC i2000 with 3 LTO3 drives in it running off
one backup server and two storage nodes (one server per drive)
I see a consistent 70 megabytes/sec with spikes up to 110 megabytes per
second.
This is using a single gigabit ethernet conecction to each storage node -
after some more testing I will be moving to teamed NICs
Cheers,
Matt
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Re: [Networker] licensing requirements for driving library's drives with >
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LTO-3 drives can run at half speed, and I believe some other speed
breakpoints as well... So even if your network does turn out to be a
bottleneck there should not be a problem with shoe-shining your
drives...
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Tim Mooney
Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2005 8:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] licensing requirements for driving library's
drives with > 1 server
In regard to: [Networker] licensing requirements for driving
library's...:
> It seems to me that in order to accomplish this I can
> (a) get a low-end Sun box capable of driving 6 LTO3 drives over fiber
(i.e.
> maybe a 440), or
> (b) continue to use the SF280s I'm using now, each driving two LTO3
drives.
>
> I'm uncertain what sort of licensing requirements there would be, were
> I to go with option (b).
>
> For a couple of reasons I won't get in to here, I do not plan to back
> up data in a SAN (i.e. backup traffic will traverse our gigE switched
> network
> instead.)
How many GigE interfaces are there on your server(s)?
With a theoretical maximum of ~ 125 MB/s and an actual maximum much
lower than that, you may not be able to push even one LTO3 drive over a
single gigE link. I'm not sure if Solaris 10 is supported yet as a
backup server (we use Red Hat Linux), but graphs I've seen indicate that
the new TCP/IP stack in 10 does indeed improve performance
significantly.
If you only have one gigE link coming into the server, you'll need to
consider backup to disk, possibly followed by staging to tape.
BTW, I was at LISA '05 last week, and went to a number of the
backup-related BoFs. Curtis Preston hosted a few of them, and he really
stressed the point that a single gigE link just won't do it for even the
previous generation of tape drives.
Tim
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