Hi

Kind regards,
Jens

On 04/09/2009, at 01.27, Anacreo wrote:

I'm trying to figure out why people have so many storage nodes...  10,
really?

I've got a fairly beefy backup environment, about 36TB on the weekends and a lot of boxes 100+. And I'm doing this all on a single Sun T5240... doesn't

even seem to be cracking a sweat.

Seems to me... any modern machine can handle:
   Atleast 6 1GB NIC's if not 2-4 10gb NIC's...  so that's 7-40gb/s
inbound...
   Atleast 2-4 dual ported 4gb HBA's... So that's 16gb/s outbound...

And a modern 4x4 Intel server or a 100+ coolthread Sun server can easily

move that much bandwidth...

   So why so many boxes?


Are all the storage nodes regional -- if so, I completely understand.

Are all these storage nodes for doing snapshot backups (which I've learned

to despise and not value at all)?
Is it because you're using a Windows infrastructure?
Or Legacy?

Am I missing a boat somewhere?

Chester, can you explain why you have 10 storage nodes to solve my
curiosity?

Alec

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:

In regard to: [Networker] Upgrade Time... (7.4.4 to 7.5.1), Chester
Martin...:

I have two questions:

1) Do the networker server and all the storage nodes need to run the same version? I have over 10 storage nodes and didn't know whether

or not I needed to upgrade all of them at the same time.

Yes.

2)      Is there anything important I'm leaving out?

Most upgrade documents recommend you check client indexes and the media

database before doing an upgrade

      nsrck -L6
      nsrim -vX

Tim
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