Re: [Networker] sizing a Sun server for a 4xLTO3 tape library

Jim, That is excellent news, I'm sure many of us will be very keen to
hear how it goes.
 
 
If anyone else is contemplating the use of T2000 servers, the cooltst
script on this website is available to help your decision.
http://cooltools.sunsource.net/cooltst/index.html

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Jim Ruskowsky
Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:15 PM
To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Networker] sizing a Sun server for a 4xLTO3 tape library



Tommy, Peter, & list - 

We are very close to getting some real live data through our SunFire
T2000 / LTO3 solution - probably in the next couple weeks. 

Our setup is 
        Networker 7.2.1 running on Solaris 10 
        ADIC i2000 with 10 LTO3 drives (connected to fibre switch via 3
i/o blades @ 2 fibres per blade) 
        Two SunFire T2000 - each connected to the fibre switch via 2
fibres 
        We have DDS for all 10 drives, so with the fibre redundancy,
each sun server sees each of the 10 drives twice, so networker sees all
10 drives via 4 different paths 
        The SunFires each connect to our backup ethernet switch via
10Gig Ethernet. 

I'll do some real testing using just the main server and just 4 drives
(two on each fibre channel) and see what kind of throughput I can get
outta this thing and let this group know how it goes.  Thoeretically,
this should work without the T2000 breaking too much of a sweat. 

Jim 



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