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[Veritas-bu] Blade Server Backups

2005-11-28 23:11:34
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Blade Server Backups
From: kris.williams AT hp DOT com (Williams, Kristopher L)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:11:34 -0600
 
All,


I'm wondering what everyone is doing to backup blade servers.

For one of my customers, we have a dedicated disk SAN with a separate
Tape fabric for backups. We backup most servers over the network, unless
it's large (~200gb) at which point we put another HBA in for tape
connection. With the blades we are using, we only have 2 HBA ports to
use for each blade. Both are going to the disk SAN for redundancy. This
leaves me with pulling quite a bit of data over the LAN for backups.

Anyone have any creative ideas? I really don't want to mix tape and disk
on the same SAN (I know this has been debated here before). I know I can
just put into effect a policy that says "no more than ~200gb per blade",
but it feels like there should be a better answer. 

Looking to start a discussion on what others are doing when faced with
this problem to get ideas flowing.


Thanks!

Kris


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