Author: Jim Allison <jim.allison AT ASURION DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:38:58 -0400
Hey folks, I have a few questions about storage node configuration. I am new to this shop and we are using a configuration that I am unfamiliar with. We are running 7.4.2 on Windows 2003 servers. Lib
Author: Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT ANIXTER DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:10:24 -0500
Hello, The usual way of sharing the lib is actually via sharing drives ( needs DDS licences), control lun should be owned and assigned to master server, please check jbconfig man page or use Gui to c
Author: Bruce Breidall <Bruce.Breidall AT CONCUR DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:50:32 -0700
Also, you have to decide whether or not you want the SNs to be dedicated to themselves or not. To be non-dedicated requires another (more expensive) license. You get prompted for that choice when you
Author: "Allison, Jim" <Jim.Allison AT ASURION DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:25:01 -0500
Thanks guys, We do have all the DDS and SN licenses we need. I am painfully aware of the issues surrounding DDS and dedicated Storage Nodes. I had to script cron jobs around the backup times of lanle
Author: "Browning, David" <DBrown AT LSUHSC DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:27:15 -0500
Jim, We have 2 T950 libraries, and use both Storage nodes, and Dedicated Storage nodes. In our setup, our large (2TB+) SQL servers are dedicated storage nodes, and backup their own SQL databases. Aft
Author: Bruce Breidall <Bruce.Breidall AT CONCUR DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:33:54 -0700
I have no experience with ACSLS and Legato, but plenty with other products. As you mentioned, ACS can be partitioned to look like separate libraries, and they are configured a separate libs in NW wit
Author: Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:41:50 -0400
Hey, I run with a similar configuration... A Qualstar XLS with 12 LTO4 fibre tape drives. Only the nsr server has access to the control port and each of the storage nodes has it's tape drives but NO
Author: "Allison, Jim" <Jim.Allison AT ASURION DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:32:39 -0500
Thanks all. We have it working. The Networker software on the SN was not 7.4.2 and getting the versions matched appears to have fixed the problem. I was pretty sure intially that the control port was