Well the Celerras punp their NDMP backups through the FC drives/VTL so
I guess I'm offloading all that bandwidth via that.  I guess I'm
trying to see at what point NW storagenodes are more cost/management
effective then inexplicably cheap high speed networking...

Thanks for constructive responses!

Alec

On 9/3/09, Siobhán Ellis <siobhanellis AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> They may be dedicated storage nodes. The boat you may be missing could be
> the RTO/RPOI one.
>
>
>
> Often people look at backup, and forget that you need to restore. e.g., you
> may have an 8 hr backup window, but the RTO could be 1 hr.
>
>
> Siobhán
>
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:27:30 -0500
>> From: anacreo AT GMAIL DOT COM
>> Subject: Re: [Networker] Upgrade Time... (7.4.4 to 7.5.1)
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out why people have so many storage nodes... 10,
>> really?
>>
>> I've got a fairly beefy backup environment, about 36TB on the weekends and
>> a
>> lot of boxes 100+. And I'm doing this all on a single Sun T5240... doesn't
>> even seem to be cracking a sweat.
>>
>> Seems to me... any modern machine can handle:
>> Atleast 6 1GB NIC's if not 2-4 10gb NIC's... so that's 7-40gb/s
>> inbound...
>> Atleast 2-4 dual ported 4gb HBA's... So that's 16gb/s outbound...
>>
>> And a modern 4x4 Intel server or a 100+ coolthread Sun server can easily
>> move that much bandwidth...
>>
>> So why so many boxes?
>>
>>
>> Are all the storage nodes regional -- if so, I completely understand.
>> Are all these storage nodes for doing snapshot backups (which I've learned
>> to despise and not value at all)?
>> Is it because you're using a Windows infrastructure?
>> Or Legacy?
>>
>> Am I missing a boat somewhere?
>>
>> Chester, can you explain why you have 10 storage nodes to solve my
>> curiosity?
>>
>> Alec
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > In regard to: [Networker] Upgrade Time... (7.4.4 to 7.5.1), Chester
>> > Martin...:
>> >
>> > I have two questions:
>> >>
>> >> 1) Do the networker server and all the storage nodes need to run
>> >> the same version? I have over 10 storage nodes and didn't know whether
>> >> or not I needed to upgrade all of them at the same time.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> > 2) Is there anything important I'm leaving out?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Most upgrade documents recommend you check client indexes and the media
>> > database before doing an upgrade
>> >
>> > nsrck -L6
>> > nsrim -vX
>> >
>> > Tim
>> > --
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