We have been using the Sun Fire x4500 (the pre-cursor to the x4540)
as a media server for over 3 years.  We originaly used RH Linux
and then switched to Solaris x86_64.  These machines are awesome.
We have the 4x1Gb nics trunked together and regularly see 275MB/s
and better for backup performance.

If it were not for our replication requirements for much of 
our backup environment we would probably have more of these
units as backup targets.

Good Luck,
Ken
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Ken Sibley
Manager, Unix Administration
ksibley AT accor-na DOT com <mailto:ksibley AT accor-na DOT com> 
972-360-2678
 

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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Experience with Sun Fire x4540 as Media Server
> 
> Does anyone of you have any experience with a Sun Fire x4540 
> as a NetBackup Media Server ?
> 
> As we recently discovered that destaging on Windows Media 
> Servers is somehow limited (speed) we tested this on a 
> Solaris box and saw a huge difference.  Therefore we want to 
> try out this SUN Fire server as a Media Server.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Bart WALLEBROEK
> Backup Admin & Systems & Applications Management & Support 
> Specialist Enterprise Applications Delivery - Infrastructure 
> Management S.W.I.F.T. SCRL 
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