If I understand the question right, there are 500-5000 clients, each with
fiber cards, needing to be backed up? If this is the case than I agree whole
heatedly  with the observation. If however there are fewer systems with
fiber cards than only those systems need their own class. The rest can be
divided into manageable  groups with a set of clients going to one storage
unit, or better yet to "Any Available". Just my two cents worth. 

The biggest installation problems appear to be from the hardware
configuration side. Also depending upon the target and lun numbers used, the
NBU configuration utilities may need tweaking. (e.g. sg.conf, on Suns)

Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator for UNIX] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com

Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Friends help friends move, good friends help move bodies - Unknown.


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dean, James [mailto:jimmy.dean AT usi DOT net]
                Sent:   Monday, July 17, 2000 3:31 PM
                To:     'Buffington, Devon'; 'veritas nbu'
                Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] Veritas SSO

                I would like to add to this a small problem I have seen in
implementing this
                and see if the same person has any ideal how to work around
it.  We are
                currently undergoing a migration from another backup
platform to using
                Netbackup with and without the SSO option, i.e. IP based
backups and SAN
                based backups.  

                With the SSO option, this turns every client on the SAN/(w/
a fiber card)
                into a media server.  What this means is having a separate
class with only
                one client defined per client.  In a large environment (500
- 5000 clients)
                this becomes a major nightmare to administer and track (500
- 5000 classes).
                Especially if you make a backup window change.  I agree with
some of you
                that would say that this gives you more flexibility with
scheduling, but I
                am really not concerned with that in light of the number of
clients.

                Does anyone else see a problem with this, and if not, could
you offer some
                possible solutions as a work around.

                Thanks,
                James Dean
                Enterprise Backup
                USinternetworking Inc.


                -----Original Message-----
                From: Buffington, Devon
[mailto:Devon_Buffington AT AIMFUNDS DOT COM]
                Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 4:47 PM
                To: 'veritas nbu'
                Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas SSO


                Hello,
                Looking to see if anyone out there has experience with
Veritas' SSO product.
                If so, could you share your impressions on ease of
installation, ease of
                use, and if it improved your backups. Also, any particular
problems you had
                installing or using it would be helpful.

                Thanks in advance,

                Devon S. Buffington
                UNIX System Administrator
                AIM Management Group

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