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Veritas San Storage Option without FC-AL?
Would it be possible to run veritas' SSO to share resources, and more importantly, have a primary master and secondary slaves so the computers would share resources and be somewhat redundant without putting the tape drives onto a SAN? We have three servers and are trying to automate the backup into one instance (running on three servers) of backup exec's DB. I realize that running over ethernet, if possible, would affect performance without a doubt, but we have plently of headroom, and reliability and dependability is more important than speed (in addition, we have 4 LTO2 and 4 LTO1 drives running to backup about 1.2 TB a night, so not too big of a deal.) I could not find any good technical documentation on this, and translating our scsi tape drives to fiber and running over a SAN may or may not be practical, depending on the performance and compatability of veritas' SSO. Thanks
BTW, what had it got to do with Security ? Should be in Storage TA...
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Yes, sorry. If an admin see's this, then can you please move to Storage TA? Thanks
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I found the solution to this months ago.
To use backup exec 9.1 and prior in a shared balanced environment, you must connect your tapes with a fiber switch (you cannot put this over ethernet)
However, on backup exec 10.0 you can share the jobs (and thus the tape drives) with a master server. This is a better solution for us and anyone else with existing multiple servers attached via scsi.
Please close this question, as it has been solved
Thanks!
To use backup exec 9.1 and prior in a shared balanced environment, you must connect your tapes with a fiber switch (you cannot put this over ethernet)
However, on backup exec 10.0 you can share the jobs (and thus the tape drives) with a master server. This is a better solution for us and anyone else with existing multiple servers attached via scsi.
Please close this question, as it has been solved
Thanks!
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