You will need 4 tape drive licenses, for the physical drives, and a
license for the VTL based on the amount of usable storage (ie, after
RAIDsets, etc have been setup). With that you can create any number of
virtual tape drives on the VTL.
 
Paul
 
 
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        -----Original Message-----
        From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of "Koster,
Phil"
        Sent: August 24, 2006 11:41 AM
        To: veritas-bu
        Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Licensing Question - Phys. Drives vs.
VirtualDrives
        
        

        We got bids in for new back up solutions and one of them
proposes 16 virtual tape drives but only 4 physical LTO-3 drives.  Does
anyone know off the top of their head how that would work?  (Would we
need 16 tape drive licenses to go along with all the clients etc?).  

         

        There would not be any addition of media servers or clients.
The proposal is basically a proprietary SAN set up that has up to 32 VTD
emulation channels to interface with NBU, NBU would not be able to use
it as a DSSU, and NBU will not have direct access to the LTO-3's, only
the VTDs.

         

        Thanks.

         

        Phil Koster

        Network Administrator

        City of Grand Rapids

        Direct: 616-456-3136

        Helpdesk: 456-3999

         

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