I'm running hardware LTO4 encrytion with 12 IBM LTO's in a Sun L1400
with KMS on nb 6.5.4 and haven't seen any issues.

On 3/4/10, Eagle, Kent <KEagle AT wilmingtontrust DOT com> wrote:
> Greetings,
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> We are running NBU 6.5.3.1 with a Quantum (ADIC) i2000 Scalar library.
> We currently have a bunch of LTO2 drives, but want to switch to LTO4 and
> get rid of our inline encryption appliances. We know about QEKM and
> QSKM, but are trying to go with a more vendor neutral solution. Also, an
> i500 or another i2000 library just to enable a built in feature of LTO4
> is going to be a tuff sell to the bean counters. L
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> In doing my research, I discovered that there is an issue with status 83
> errors if you try to use KSM in an SSO environment. There are scant few
> technotes, etc.., but once you get deeper into the support matrix,
> people seem to know about it.
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> Etrack #1765730 (Document ID #329579) indicates that it will be fixed in
> 6.5.6, which has not been posted for download yet.
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> I can find no indication that NBU 7.x has this problem, or that it has
> been fixed. Having lived through all of the major upgrades, I know that
> support will be focused on 7.x problems before 6.x problems see
> daylight. At least that's the way it was from 3 to 4, 4 to 5, and 5 to
> 6.
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> Has anyone received an engineering binary to address this, or were you
> able to wrangle more info out of Symnatec? Are you successfully running
> KSM right now in an SSO environment? I'd love to hear of any and all
> experiences, both negative (and hopefully) positive.
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> P.S. - Yes, we've tested software based encryption; and the overhead was
> so great in our environment (plus the hit we took on compression) that
> it just isn't feasible.
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> Thanks,
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> Kent
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