Sorry, my information was apparently wrong. I left pre-sales and am not
necessarily well-informed anymore. I shouldn't have spoken out of turn. ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Yurchak [mailto:gyurchak AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:59 AM
To: Trotman, Kevin; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; 'Charlie .'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SAN media vs "regular" media & SSO
I work in consulting, not in sales, but I was under the impression a SAN
Media Server license was for a server to back itself up, and not any other
clients, and was therefore sold at a reduced price from a regular media
server. You just throw your huge Oracle database server onto the SAN (like
it wouldn't be there all ready) and it can back itself up instead of going
across the network.
You still need SSO and the multi-hosted drive option for each media server,
SAN or otherwise.
Thanks,
Gregg Yurchak
VERITAS Professional Services
Biloxi, MS
Cell: 228.324.6939
Office: 228.822.9810
-----Original Message-----
From: Trotman, Kevin [mailto:Kevin_Trotman AT afcc DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:31 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; 'Charlie .'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SAN media vs "regular" media & SSO
1.
3.2 and below would be SSO.
3.4 and above would be San Media License. It replaces the SSO functionality.
It provides locking for multiple machine writes to a single tape drive (IE:
multi-hosted drive support). You don't get multi-hosted drives with a
regular Media License.
2.
It's totally different. Conceptually at least. In a SAN, you're configuring
how many drives a machine can use at one time, not how many drives are
actually cabled to the machine (because all would be visible by the
machine). Its a way of controlling load balancing in software. If you have
two machines & ten drives, you can configure them as: 5/5 or 7/3 or 9/1. It
all depends on how much each machine is backing up.
3.
No, I think SSO is still bantered around some, but a SAN Media license is
the same thing for 3.4 & above.
4.
Regular media server = all of them.
San media server = all of them.
Course you'd actually be able to do backups to them correctly with a SAN
Media server license. ;) You don't need SSO for this config if you're
getting 3.4 or 4.5.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie . [mailto:maver3640 AT hotmail DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:32 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] SAN media vs "regular" media & SSO
Hello,
1. Could someone please explain the difference between a SAN media license
and a "regular" media license. My understanding is that a media server, by
default, can run backups (of itself or other clients) using a SCSI or FC
interface to the tape drive. So what does a SAN media server license give
me? Is it just saying it is "SAN compatible"?
2. If it is different, what do I have to do different in configuring a SAN
media server as opposed to a regular media server?
3. SSO gives me the option to use all any of my drives in my SAN with any of
my media servers - right? Would I still need an SSO license with a SAN media
server license?
4. If I don't use SSO, how many drives would I be able to see and
use from my media servers?
FYI - I am working with a SAN environment, with 2 libraries with 26 drives
total, HP master server, HP and NT clients. Most of the HP and NT clients
would be "SAN" media server.
Thanks
Charlie
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