I don't know the ATL P3000, so one thing I would like to know is how many
slots are we talking about?
One L700 supports up to 20 LTO drives, and you can connect 2 L700e to form
one system with a little under 1.400 slots in total
In general I like the StorageTek libraries. (from L180 and up)
They are stable, support is good, and it works well with NBU.
Our StorageTek library is around 4 years old now, and we don't have any
plans of changing that as long as we have the amount of slots we need. We
don't use LTO but STK9940B. And the maintenance is now just a running
contract where StorageTek sends us an invoice every 3 month (and we can
cancel it with 3 months notice)
I can't give that much advice about LTO1 vs. LTO2
Personaly I would go for LTO2 if I had to move away from STK9940B drives
(hope that will never happen)
But if you will stay with StorageTek libraries I would go for StorageTek's
own drives if possible. If not I would go for LTO2, especialy since it
seems that the new libraries will only support LTO (except the SL8500 and
that is a big and costly library)
/johnny
At 10:33 20-10-2004 -0700, Jennifer Hooper wrote:
>Good morning!
>
> I'm hoping that you guys can help me out. Our maintenance on our
>StorageTek L700e library is running out the end of November and management
>wants to look at the possibility of replacing it *and* our old ATL P3000
>library with a single system that can encompass everything. I know that the
>STK has 7 LTO1 drives, and the ATL has 7 DLTIV drives (I think). What
>possible library technologies should I start looking at (this is an arena
>I'm very new to, and don't have much experience... We used an optical
>library at Qualcomm, and DLT everywhere else)? Someone mentioned SAIT, and
>I ran screaming from the room. Isn't this the technology that made you
>restore from the same drive you backed up on? I would *hope* that it's
>become fairly sophisticated if it's in a library, but still!
>
> This system would also require the replacement of our master server,
>which is currently a Sunfire 250 running Solaris 7. It would integrate into
>an EMC Clariion SAN, a NetApp Filer, and both Windows and *nix clients. So
>what kind of horsepower should we shoot for when replacing this puppy? And
>does Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 run on Linux RedHat 9?
>
> I'm rather partial to the notion of upgrading our LTO1 drives to
>LTO2s, adding 7 more drives, or something like that.. But not being an
>expert, I'm lost. What have you guys had the best luck with?
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Jennifer
>
>Jennifer Hooper
>Peregrine Systems, Inc.
>San Diego, CA
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