We decided not to go forward with Alphastor. Now, after the upgrade it
seems that Alphastor may have been a little bit of overkill in our
environment. We are now just handling the import/exporting with
scripts.
Jon
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 05:02 -0400, tkimball wrote:
> We don't use one with AlphaStor, but connect to a 7+ year old L700 instead.
> Most of your concerns are in-line with mine though.
>
> I just looked at the SL500 site, and it does not mention ACSLS (which would
> make it AlphaStor compatible). The older L500 had that as an option, but
> this version is instead touting the ability to partition it into multiple
> libraries (I'd guess by media type), which removes the main purpose of AS.
>
> What do you use AlphaStor for, if you don't mind my asking? In our case its
> for true mixed media in a library that you can't partition, plus the ease of
> automated tape movement with *very* few scripts and almost 100% certainty.
>
> --TSK
> Tim Kimball, Sungard/BRASS
>
>
>
> Jon Fraley wrote:
> > Networker 7.3.3
> > Alphastor 3.1.1
> >
> > We are doing a complete upgrade of our backup infrastructure. One of
> > the new components is a StorageTek SL500. We have since found out the
> > SL500 is not in the support matrix for Alphastor. We are aware that
> > Alphastor will be going EOL. Also we will be upgrading Networker around
> > years end.
> >
> > My questions are; Is anyone using the SL500 with Alphastor? And if we
> > can't, what's the best way to manage importing/exporting of tapes? We
> > have always had Alphastor in our environment.
> >
> > Thanks -- Jon
> >
>
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