[Veritas-bu] SSO Options
2006-05-31 12:15:31
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[Veritas-bu] SSO Options |
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jack.l.forester at lmco.com (Jack Forester, Jr.) |
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Wed, 31 May 2006 12:15:31 -0400 |
Something else to bear in mind: Unless things have changed recently,
and I have an email from Veritas to support this, SSO licenses are
licensed per drive. If you have 5 drives that you are sharing, you need
5 SSO licenses.
If this is not, in fact, the case, I'll need to find new Veritas reps.
I dearly wish that they'd simplify their licensing!
Justin King wrote:
>1. I'm not familiar with the specific devices, but you should probably
>be okay with a single dedicated 'backup' HBA.
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>2. You'll need a SAN Media Server license and SSO license for each media
>server you want you backup over the SAN
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>3. (see above)
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>4. I have 5-6 Linux SAN Media servers (RH73, CentOS3 & CentOS4) - they
>work great.
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>From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
>Jonathan (Contractor)
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:49 AM
>To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options
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>All,
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>We're running 5.1 MP4 on Windows and UNIX (Solaris 2.8) here, and with
>all the budget money flying around I'm looking into adding the SSO
>Option. Basically, I would like to add our ATL to the SAN Switch and
>have our larger capacity file and database servers then SSO themselves a
>free drive and write directly to it.
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>Essentially replacing
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>SAN (DATA) --> Client --> 1GB Nic --> Media Server --> (SCSI) ATL/DRIVE#
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>with
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>SAN (DATA) --> Client --> SAN --> ATL/DRIVE#
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>I have a few questions.
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>#1 - Does running both the Storage Device (Hitachi AMS 500) and SSOing a
>drive on in the ATL affect performance? I'm assuming I can easily drive
>our SDLT220 drives to capacity using this method, but should I use two
>HBAs? (I'm assuming no.)
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>#2 - Does every server that wants to "grab" a drive need a media server
>license? I would only be using these servers daily to run their own
>backups - not others. Is this that SSO Media Server license I hear
>mentioned every once and a while?
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>#3 - What's involved in upgrading my regular old Master / Media servers
>to SSO (from a software perspective?) Do I have to upgrade everything
>to SSO, or simply add a few new SSO Media servers to my current setup?
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>#4 - Does anyone run SSO on Redhat Linux AS 3? Several of our larger
>databases are now Oracle on Linux.
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>Thanks all!
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>-Jonathan
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Jack L. Forester, Jr.
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