LTO makes tape sexy. I’ve been a fan of LTO-3 for some time now, but flipping through “Storage” magazine I just saw an ad for LTO Ultrium 4 tapes… 800GB UNCOMPRESSED! 1.6TB COMPRESSED PER TAPE! And speeds up to 240MB/s! Holy crap! Thats a tape infrastructure I can get behind.
…what the…. boy, I’ve been out of it! I just wanted to see if ADIC had any LTO-4 libraries yet. They were aquired by Quantum!!!
its too bad that Sun doesn’t have LTO-4 yet. I’d sure love to pair one up with my Thumpers.
At Homestead I bought 2 Sun C4′s which is a rebranded Quantum PX502, and I liked it (except the chassis construction is funky, getting drives in and out is a nightmare, but how often do you swap drives). But I sure wouldn’t mind having one of those ADIC Scalar i500′s with LTO4 drives (above). I remember talking with ADIC when they released the i500 and there was something I didn’t like about it… but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was.
On the software side of things, I still feel like there are no good options. NetBackup is still, imho, the only game in town. I’ve been excited about alternatives (NBU is far from perfect) but the user interfaces for tools like BakBone are built for children, not storage engineers. Apparently NetBackup 6.5 is in the hopper and a sneak peak webcast is coming June 21st (must register). Hopefully NBU 6.5 is the big jump forward that the product needs.
Apparently NetBackup finally has support for Solaris/X86. When I was at Homestead I refreshed our backup infrastructure in 2 facilities, both identical setups: Sun X4200 and Sun C4 (LTO3). The idea was to ditch the existing Sun 420R’s (using ADIC AIT2 libraries) and move to a cheaper and faster setup, but that was all contigent on NetBackup having server support for Solaris/X86… I was blind sided when I found out that it didn’t exist (datasheets say “Sun Solaris” without specifying SPARC or X86) and worse than that was 8 months away from appearing I was furious. I almost switched to BakBone just to flip the finger at Veritas, but alas I just can’t stand the way you manage BakBone jobs. So we had to deploy NetBackup on CentOS… I was mortified. Its probly still running that way today.
Since this is rant/rave post… Am I the only one that is pissed off that Veritas never posts version numbers on their web site? You have to go through the manuals on the support site to figure out what features are in what version. What a PITA! I have no idea what release included Solaris/AMD support, but have to assume its 6.0 MP4.
In other news… Brocade has a new logo. I noticed this first when driving past their San Jose offices a couple months ago….
Red, White, and Black…. can’t argue with the color scheme. But the logo! Gotta be honest, first though was …. well, I’ll omit it, just use your imagination. But I guess the idea is good. Speeding wings in the shape of a B… your angelic storage partner to the rescue. But, I dunno. They are definately working hard to re-invent the company as FC SAN’s go out of style. I admit I liked the Fabric logo they used to have:
I’m still a fan of the Brocade 2800. Great form-factor. Loved FabricOS. A great switch.
Of course, these days I prefer a storage switch more like this:
Force10, imho, is the new Brocade. But like I said, Brocade is re-inventing themselves, so maybe I should say “new McData” (except that Brocade aquired McData, but you know what I mean). I never had the pleasure of using a McData but always looked very appealing.
Brocade has a new book out, available as a free eBook: File Area Networks – Your First Look at FAN Technology. Looks like yet another attempt of a storage company to invent a new market… hey, its worked before. The concept is really about getting SAN minded people to think about files rather than raw blocks in a traditional FC SAN environment. I just downloaded the book and it looks ok, kinda like a really long and wordy white paper, but we’ll see how it turns out. I think the french maid did it in the library.
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Shallow, sure, but still sexy! And that counts. 
I was at an IBM Storage day a couple of weeks back (only partially relevant to the sort of work I’m doing, as it turned out, but interesting nonetheless). A short presentation right at the end was devoted to these:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/dr/specifications.html which are getting LTO4 as we speak.
Probably not very highly relevant to the Solaris universe, but I thought the geekpr0n appreciator in you might like it.
The larger tapes are great but one IMHO one of the biggest advantages is that LTO4 has built-in encryption in every tape drive.
Ben your post is very timely. About 2.5 years ago we shot Veritas out the window. Their NDMP support at the time wasn’t as good as Bakbone and their maintance costs were insane. We replaced them with Bakbone and managed to take our maintenance to 1/7 of what it was.
We just refreshed our backup platform and have moved to a combination of Bakbone for some platforms but majority of systems now use OSSV with our Netapp using Snapvault all to a Netapp 3020. This is a KILLER solution, I love it! I’m now looking to replace my aging LTO-1 ADIC Scaler 100 libraries with something smaller. The C4/IBM 4U Universal and Quantum PX502 are what we are looking at. They’re effectively all the same library. This looks like a great little library for my needs (taking snapvault and ossv snapshots from my 3020 and putting them on tape once per month).
At the end of the day however the amount of tape I’ve removed from my infrastructure is what the true story is. No tape is good tape.
We are going to try Bacula on Sol x86 + Exabyte Magnum 224 + 21TB SataBeast for a D2D2T solution. It’s in the early stages of testing/setup, but if it works, in combination with ZFS (for SataBeast) we should be able to replace half a dozen NAS boxes.
I’ve had a lot of beef with Veritas too.. As far as I can tell they’ve been going downhill since the Symantec acquisition. E,g,, when you open a support ticket through their aging site, you almost never get all the proper version numbers available (or that you currently have). This is especially true on Linux.
Ben,
Is FC really dying and being replaced by Ethernet switches and iSCSI?
I know iSCSI costs a lot less, but does it have the performance given the overhead of TCP/IP? And, does the extra performance matter?
Thanks!
FC will be closer to dying once 10G ethernet switches become cheaper.
Ben,
Have you checked with your local VAR? We’ve been considering upgrading to LTO4 drives, and have been told that they are currently available from Sun; i.e. I have a quote for our VAR for a new library with LTO4 drives.
Care to comment on your experiences with the C4 (aka Quantum PX500)?
Ours has been less than perfectly reliable. I have been working with Sun support for quite a while now trying to track down the cause of a “disconnected command timeout” between a V240 and our C4. It turns out that the C4 is able to emulate an ATLP2000, and this emulation has something to do with errors/warnings that we’ve been seeing. Turning the emulation off, and reconfiguring our backup software seems to fix the problem (or at least, the symptom).
Since you’ve previously commented on various rights and wrongs in Sun’s service, I feel compelled to add a few notes on my experience with Sun support. The issue with our C4 described above was initially handled rather poorly. My impression was that the techinician that I was working with got frustrated and gave up. The most irritating part of this situation, was that he would not return my phone calls or emails. I was finally able to have the ownership of the case transferred. From that point forward, the support that I received from Sun was absolutely stellar. It would be nice to have had this happen the first time around, but I feel that it handled well overall.
-Andrew
Regarding Netbackup, have you ever looked at Tivoli Storage Manager?
It’s a complex product, but there’s a lot of power in it.
Yes the Scalar i500′s do seem quite nice. We just purchased one where i work, unfortunately only have LTO3 drives in it though. Should be interesting to see how it performs with 9 LTO3 drives
Note to self: don
Get ready for FCoE
hi ben,
NBU support for AMD64 solaris isn
These are the URLs not sure what happened to them
http://www.freshnews.com/news/computers-internet/article_38562.html
http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=press.viewReleaseDetail&prid=192
Beware – We have just been told that it won’t be possible to get LTO4 drivers for the C4 library. We’ve only had ours 18 months and are not very happy about this.
Anyone else have any different experiences with C4/LTO4
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