I'll chime in here for SSO too- if you have it, then zoning drives to only one 
host is pointless and silly.

We are using 3 media servers and 2 NetApp appliances attached to 6 LTO3 drives 
(soon to be 8 ) on a StorageTek l700 with SSO.  All media servers can use all 
tape drives  as can the NetApps over NDMP. Running 6.5.3.1 (Netapps are at DOT 
7.3.1) and it works very well.  We have some occasional quirks with SSO when 
drives have issues, but it's more than offset by the efficiencies we gain.  


If you already own SSO- use it.  It has some quirks as others describe, but 
you'll probably find you get much better utilization out of your drives.

Tom Burrell


David Turner wrote:
> I have 1 windows master running Netbackup 6.5 with 3 media servers. I have 
> Storagetek/Sun SL8500 with 8 LTO3 tape drives (2 drives are dedicated via 
> NDMP to a Netapp 3050). All drives are connected via FC to brocade etc. we 
> have the Shared storage option but I don?t think it?s working properly. How 
> can I verify that its working?  
> 
> I believe the engineers that configured the zoning on the switch dedicated 2 
> drives per server and dedicate 2 to the Netapp. Did it makes sense to 
> purchase SSO?  
> 
> 
> I was told you should only have 2 LTO3 drives per servers because of ?shoe 
> shining? and the servers ability to handle more than 2 drives (Dell 2950?s 
> quad cores with 8gig of ram). I am wondering if the switch should be rezoned 
> to make use of SSO or can the zoning have an impact on how SSO should be 
> configured? How can these 2 play together? 
> 
> As you can see I am all confused and would love for someone to explain this 
> in simple terms. 
> 
> thanks


+----------------------------------------------------------------------
|This was sent by tburrell_mn AT yahoo DOT com via Backup Central.
|Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu