What is the underlying
reason for doing this?
Is the goal to improve the
network throughput on the media server or do the clients have an actual need to
be on four different vlans?
If you did it that way you would
create a "virtual" media server entry for each ip.
The real challenge comes
with the tape drives. Although the drives can be shared among the virtual media
servers, with SSO, only one virtual media server can write to a specific tape drive
at any one time.
Without going into too much
detail you may have difficulty keeping all four tape drives running at full speed
on one host. If they are not running at full speed the backup throughput performance
will drop sharply.
There may be better options
if the goal is to just improve throughput.
-IPMP
-Ethernet Trunking.
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Jonathan Marianu (mah ree ah' nu)
AT&T Storage Planning and Design Architect
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