Heterogeneous SAN Tape Solutions?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 10, 2002 @04:30AM from the fixing-the-problems dept.

chasmosis asks: "My company's decision to go with a heterogeneous SAN setup has our DataCenter Engineers banging their head's against a wall. Interoperability nightmares include matching microcode for various components to achieve some level of stability. One of the biggest current problems is with SAN connected StorageTek tape libraries, anytime a server scans the SAN for devices (ie on NT system boot, an AIX machine running cfgmgr , etc...) it accesses the tape drives, interrupting any currently running backups. What have others done to make their SANs more dependable, especially for backups/tapes?"

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Anything but.. by AnalogBoy · 2002-01-10 05:48 · Score: 3, Informative

Legato Notworker!

Having had the fortune of using it for the last 4 years I can honestly say, while its gotten better, its still got a LOT of PROBLEMS.
1. Re:Anything but.. by larien · 2002-01-10 07:04 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Urgh; amen. We just upgraded our backup server and I had the dubious pleasure of setting it up.
  90% of the problems were in the way it handled indexes for multihomed hosts; it would look for the index under the hostname of what you told it to backup and then dump the index under whatever 'hostname' returned. I did eventually find a workaround (by specifying the backup command to include the system name), but it was a PITA.