[Veritas-bu] Long distance fibrechannel tape drives

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Bahnmiller, Bryan wrote:

>   We are running NBU 5.1mp3a on a W2K3 master with AIX media servers. 
> We are running to SAN connected tape drives locally and remotely. The 
> tape drives are IBM LTO2 in ADIC Scalar I2K's. The SAN is Cisco 
> MDS9000 series switches. The remote data center is connected to the 
> local one via long distance FC (approx 23 miles.)
>
I've run 10 tape drives in an L5500 over a mile long pair of single mode 
fibre.. not really long distance.

We're getting about 30MBps throughput multiplexed.

-- 
Dan


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Bahnmiller, Bryan wrote:
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running NBU 5.1mp3a on a
W2K3 master with AIX media servers. We are running to SAN connected
tape drives
locally and remotely. The tape drives are IBM LTO2 in ADIC Scalar
I2K&#8217;s.
The SAN is Cisco MDS9000 series switches. The remote data center is
connected
to the local one via long distance FC (approx 23 miles.) 
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I've run 10 tape drives in an L5500 over a mile long pair of single
mode fibre.. not really long distance.<br>
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We're getting about 30MBps throughput multiplexed.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">-- 
Dan
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