Hi, We have an EMC CX3-40 SAN with VMWARE ESX and windows 2003 virtual servers running.
Using a DELL 1950 running Backup EXEC we backup DISK to DISK (via network) to a LUN attached. Then from that backup on the LUN we COPY to Tape.
My problem is that to backup 580 GB of Data with 50GB of exchange (also virtualised) it takes nearly 20 hours by them time it is saved and verified on the LTO 3 400/800
Does anyone know what real speeds for network and disk to tape I should be getting?
We have a managed layer 3 full gigabit non-blocking infrastructre using Dell Powerconnect 6224.
The ESX server each have 4 NICs teamed for these virtual machines and the servers are highly underutilised, all VMs and other DATA is on quality and quick LUNs on the SAN.
Also I noticed that we were running out of tape storage on a single 400/800 tape for full data backup, so I've just bought an additional HP MSL6030 30x1 LTO-3 tape library. Unforutnately it is also a SCSI device and not fibre (just like my current DELL Powervault 124T 8x1 autoloader).
What I want to know is, would I be able to simply daisy chain these two devices via SCSI and then be able to use both of them simultaneously with new backup configurations in Backup EXEC? The Dell is really a rebadge IBM library.
Thanks...I'd appreciate any help.
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