We have two Sun 6800 (32 procs, 64M RAM) running as media servers.  Big
enough?

We're sharing 8 LTO drives among a total of 4 media servers in an SSO
arrangement.  They 6800's media servers just so they can back themselves up
(they host a massive Oracle DB) - they don't act as media servers for the
dozen or so small clients that are scattered around.  Our Master/Media
server (v880) handles them.  I'm pushing hard to get them to install gigabit
ethernet on our master server but it hasn't happened yet - infrastructure is
no good for that.

More important, though, than the size/type of media server is how many
clients you have, the amount of data on each, and the logical proximity of
clients to media servers.  Throughput for simple clients is going to be
related to network speed, drive speed, media server congestion, amount of
data to be transferred and a bunch of other stuff.  Unless you're trying to
jam multi-terrabytes through a Sparc 5, the type of media server isn't on
top of the list.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Vapiwala, Kevin V [IT] [mailto:kevin.v.vapiwala AT citigroup DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:18 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Experience with Large SUN media servers


NB users,

How many of you have a large sUN master/media server in your
environment? 

I am curious about the following

1. Type and number of tape drives you are using 
2. how many of Network Interfaces on the machine
3. Throughput ( # clients, amount data that is backed up)
4. Specs of machine ( Model, memory, CPU)
5. How the machine and tape drives are configured. 
6. size of NB database
7. Any other helpful information would be greatly appreciated. 

We are looking to deploy a large media server environment in the future and
would like to get some information.


Many thanks,

Kevin
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