My tape drive count stayed roughly the same, our existing drive license count
was more than sufficient to cover it.  Veritas is still in a process of working
out how to deal with virtual drives, they are too new to be in their "official"
licensing matrix.

paulg

On May 25,  9:34am, Gary Andresen wrote:
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vitrual libs, drives and tapes...
> Hmm I see I'm going to have to go ask some questions about SSO and tape
> drive licensing with virtual tape. SSO and tape drive robotic support is
> licensed per drive.
>
> So Paul what did VERITAS say about your licenses when you moved from 3
> libraries to one virtual library? Did you just keep your drive count the
> same?
>
> Thanks
> G
>
>
> Gary Andresen
> Impossible Happens, Plan Ahead
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> > admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gimpelev
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:38 AM
> > To: Hampus Lind; Veritas maillista
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Vitrual libs, drives and tapes...
> >
> > This will all depend on what you need.  We have a DL700 and we bought it
> > to
> > consolidate 3 physical tape libraries.  Depending on what you are trying
> > to
> > achive, I would try to avoid using SSO since you now have a fairly large
> > pool
> > of "tape drives" and "libraries".  For example, you can define one large
> > 20
> > tape library and assign 2 of the drives to one hosts, 4 to the other,
> > etc..
> >  This way you can avoid the complexity and possible issues of SSO..
> >
> > paulg
> >
> > On May 25, 11:35am, Hampus Lind wrote:
> > > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vitrual libs, drives and tapes...
> > >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > We are looking on EMC DL300, which can simulate 32 libs, 256 drives and
> > 2048
> > tapes. DL300 is a disk library.
> > > We want to run SSO on some clients to directly SAN attached dirves in
> > the
> > DL300 to get better backup and restore times.
> > >
> > > Anyone using similar solutions??
> > >
> > > Thoughts??
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Hampus Lind
> > >
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