We're at SP1, possibly later. The PV 124T is adequate for what it is, but slow. Other than that it's been reliable.
The Quantum is too new to have an opinion about just yet. I liked our ancient Spectralogic Treefrog - it had two AIT2 drive and held 25 carts. Ditto the Spectralogic T50 - it had two LTO3 drives and held 25 carts. Kurt On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]> wrote: > The only other thing I could think of then is the bug we ran into with DPM > 2012 cu3 (pre SP1) where backing up Sharepoint caused the SQL db to grow out > of control. It never fixed itself though--we had to intervene. > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2013/01/28/kb-the-data-protection-manager-database-grows-and-the-console-crashes-after-installing-update-rollup-3.aspx > > I'm guessing you're probably already past SP1 by now though. > > BTW, how has your experience been with the tape libraries? We have three of > two different models, and I suspect some of our issues may be iSCSI related > as it seems the older Dell PV 132T library connected directly with the SAS > 5/e card has fewer issues than the Dell TL2000s do. All are on the list for > supported hardware. > > -B > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] DPM 2012 > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Miller Bonnie L. > <[email protected]> wrote: > <Snip> > > For Kurt, FYI, we did have some issues with conflicts w/UB. > Specifically, if you have >> something using VSS backups, like SQL, it can be a problem to have both >> installed. >> During migration/cutover, we had a few SQL servers that wouldn't even >> boot with both agents installed--had to go to LKG, pull out UB and the >> locked file driver, and start again. >> I never tried installing both DPM and UB on the same server that was >> doing the backups as we had new hardware for the servers and the first >> tape libraries moved are iSCSI connected. Haven't seen the OS full >> issue you've mentioned either--are you maybe running the SQL install and DB >> for DPM on the same partition? >> >> -Bonnie > > Not as far as I can recall. The machine is a Dell R710, and has about 140gb > for the internal OS partition (about 96gb free, currently), a 5tb internal > partition that we outgrew for UB data, an 18tb partition for the main UB data > on a Dell MD1200 unit and a new MD1200 with 4x4tb drives for DPM that's > cascaded from the older MD1200. The tape robots are a Dell 124T (LTO4, single > drive, 16 slots) and a Quantum Scalar > i40 (2xLTO5 drives with 40 slots). The MD1200s are on a Dell H800, and the > robots are on separate HBAs - a Dell SAS 5/E and an LSI SAS2 Falcon. The > internal array runs off the embedded PERC 6/i. It's got 2x6core procs and > 96gb RAM, running Win2k8R2 Enterprise. [1,2] > > IIRC, the SQL executables are installed to the OS partition, and the DPM > database itself is installed to the 5tb partition. > > Kurt > > [1] Yes, we had to upgrade the power supplies - they were 2x570W, now they're > 2x870W. > [2] Yes, we also had to upgrade from Standard to Enterprise to accommodate > the RAM, and the process was painless. DISM is a very cool tool, and I'm so > very glad we have an EA. > >
