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Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

2013-11-19 13:49:20
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance
From: Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>
To: "'Privat Gmail'" <mian71 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:49:08 +0000

There are other devices on the SAN Switch, but our SAN Admin see no high usage or no excessive dropouts or issues when doing backups to the media server itself.

 

The Library is in a different location as well – So it has 2 hops to go through via the SAN, but as I mention, from the Media Server itself, backup seems to be running very well.

 

Just so odd!

Will see what HP have to say now.

 

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Sent: 19 November 2013 15:37
To: Simon Weaver
Cc: Rusty Major; Patrick Whelan; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

 

Hello Simon

 

How is the performance if you run backup of the media server it self to the new library ?

 

Thinking if that is poor the problem is between the media server and ESL library

 

Anything to see on SAN switch ? 

 

If both LTO4 and LTO5 is connected trough the same HBAs, you can have situation where the LTO4 is taking up all the fiber bandwidth at concurrent backup to LTO4 & LTO5

 

Regards

Michael

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Den 19/11/2013 kl. 16.06 skrev Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>:

I am referring to doing a backup over the Local Area Network to either the LTO4 or LTO5 drive via a Media Server.

 

The only thing SAN Attached is the Media Server to the LTO4 and LTO5 library.

 

One client is in the same room as the Media Server and backups to the LTO5 is bad. Yet going through all the diagnostics on the HP ESL show nothing.

For now, I have reverted back to the LTO4, where speeds are great!

 

But it makes ZERO sense. I do feel it is comms related, but it is trying to prove that.

Simon


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] on behalf of Rusty Major [rusty.major AT sungard DOT com]
Sent: 19 November 2013 14:37
To: Patrick Whelan
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; Simon Weaver
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

I assume he means a normal backup over the network, versus a FT or SAN Media Server backup.

 

I would suggest looking at the drive it was using and seeing if there is something wrong there. Maybe shut that one down to see if it has an issue.

 

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Patrick Whelan <Patrick_Whelan AT symantec DOT com> wrote:

You’ve lost me. What do you mean by over the LAN? What is difference between the two policies?

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Simon Weaver
Sent: 19 November 2013 13:50
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] ESL Poor LAN Performance

 

Feel like my second home at the mo....

I have a crazy situation here, so wonder if anyone with HP G3 ESL experience can help.

 

7.5 environment, separate Media Server that can backup to LTO4 Library and new ESL Library.

 

Problem. Backups over the LAN throughput is really bad going to the LTO5 Library.

 

To give you an idea, 20 hours to backup 100GB.

I cancel the job, revert backup policy to the LTO4 library, same media server and backups of the same capacity done in 2 hours.

 

I have gone through all settings on the ESL, cannot see anything, found nothing to research, but I cannot sustain this sort of throughput!

 

Yet, I cannot quite understand why this is happening.

Any ideas welcome!

Simon


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