We have 2 SN6000s here.  They're not libraries or robots.  They can perform 
tape viurtualization.  They present a set of virtual drives to the media 
servers which they can dynamically map to physical tapes on the back end.  No 
disk involved, and the physical and logical drives can be of different types.  
They work with ACSLS as an ACSLS proxy.  There's other features, too like 
replication where the host writes one stream of data, but the SN6000 actually 
writes it to multiple tapes.  We never used that feature.

We're preparing to decommission our SN6000s.  They're not being replaced with 
anything - we're just going to give the media servers direct access to the tape 
drives.  We're adding a pair of VTLs to the environment, but not as a 
replacement of the '6000s.

Jack L. Forester, Jr.
UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf
Lockheed Martin Information Technology
(304) 625-3946
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:27 AM
To: Didier BRUN
Cc: WALLEBROEK Bart; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Replacement of StorageTek/SUN SN6000

The best Sun/STK robot out there now is the SL8500, not sure what the 
SN6000 looked like though.

Can hold up to 64 drives, is ACSLS-driven and has 10,000 slots if fully 
expanded.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Didier BRUN wrote:

> Hi Bart,
>
>    We have 6 SN6000 and we are looking for another solution too.
>
>    So
>
> Anyone else has another/better solution to replace an SN6000 ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Didier BRUN.
>
> WALLEBROEK Bart a écrit :
>> As the StorageTek/SUN SN6000 will soon b
>>  out of support we need to look
>> for something else.  Pitty because it worked very well with NetBackup.
>>
>> Suggestion we've got from SUN was to replace the SN6000 with lot's of
>> SSO licenses.  Problem is that I had some experience before with SSO and
>> it is not that easy to configure and troubleshoot.
>>
>> Anyone else has another/better solution to replace an SN6000 ?
>>
>> Thanx,
>> Bart Wallebroek
>>
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