Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Brad Hillebrand
OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option?  How long have
these been out?

On 9/12/07, Austin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
 drive?

 I don't use them, but I did some research.
 One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
 write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
 disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
 one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

 LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
 I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
 w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

 Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
 write at 120 MB/Sec.

 Austin

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Justin Piszcz


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Hillebrand wrote:

 OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option?  How long have
 these been out?

 On 9/12/07, Austin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
 drive?

 I don't use them, but I did some research.
 One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
 write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
 disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
 one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

 LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
 I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
 w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

 Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
 write at 120 MB/Sec.

 Austin



I think he was referring to the T10K drives.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Austin Murphy
Yes.  They've been out for about 5 months.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21429.wss

Austin

On 9/13/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option?  How long have
 these been out?


 On 9/12/07, Austin Murphy  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
 drive?
 
  I don't use them, but I did some research.
  One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
  write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
  disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
  one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
 
  LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
  I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
  w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
 
  Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
  write at 120 MB/Sec.
 
  Austin
 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Keating
Isn't this true for most of the high end drives?
None of them are variable speed, but will write at one of 2 or 3 fixed
speeds.


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 To: Brad Hillebrand
 Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
 Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive
 
 
 I don't use them, but I did some research.
 One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
 write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
 disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
 one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
 
 LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
 I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
 w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
 
 Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
 write at 120 MB/Sec.
 
 Austin


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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Brad Hillebrand
That is true, and the number of speeds depends (am I right on this?) on how
the manufactuer implemented the LTO standard.  Does anyone know if there is
a way to monitor/poll/capture what speed the drive is operating at a given
time?

On 9/13/07, Austin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Yes. Few drives are actually completely variable speed.   The LTO
 drives from IBM can write at 5 different fixed speeds, from half speed
 to full speed.

 See page 55 of the PDF here:
 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245946.html
 It describes Dynamic Speed Matching on IBM's LTO3 drives.

 IBM's TS1120 has 6 speeds.  (page 77)

 This article compares the T10k and the TS1120 and mentions the write
 speeds.
 http://www.clipper.com/research/TCG2005077.pdf

 Austin

 On 9/13/07, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Isn't this true for most of the high end drives?
  None of them are variable speed, but will write at one of 2 or 3 fixed
  speeds.
 
 
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   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
   Of Austin Murphy
   Sent: September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
   To: Brad Hillebrand
   Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
   Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive
  
  
   I don't use them, but I did some research.
   One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
   write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
   disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
   one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
  
   LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
   I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
   w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
  
   Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
   write at 120 MB/Sec.
  
   Austin
 
 
 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Schaefer, Harry
FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
-xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...

Harry

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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
To: Brad Hillebrand
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
drive?

I don't use them, but I did some research.
One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
write at 120 MB/Sec.

Austin
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Hall, Christian N.
What type of data? 

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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:09 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
-xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...

Harry

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Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
To: Brad Hillebrand
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
drive?

I don't use them, but I did some research.
One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
write at 120 MB/Sec.

Austin
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Justin Piszcz


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Hillebrand wrote:

 That is true, and the number of speeds depends (am I right on this?) on how
 the manufactuer implemented the LTO standard.  Does anyone know if there is
 a way to monitor/poll/capture what speed the drive is operating at a given
 time?

With NetBackup bpdbjobs -most_columns, one of the fields is the speed.

With hardware, fiber channel switch, check how much a port is using.

Justin.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Austin Murphy
Yes. Few drives are actually completely variable speed.   The LTO
drives from IBM can write at 5 different fixed speeds, from half speed
to full speed.

See page 55 of the PDF here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245946.html
It describes Dynamic Speed Matching on IBM's LTO3 drives.

IBM's TS1120 has 6 speeds.  (page 77)

This article compares the T10k and the TS1120 and mentions the write speeds.
http://www.clipper.com/research/TCG2005077.pdf

Austin

On 9/13/07, Paul Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Isn't this true for most of the high end drives?
 None of them are variable speed, but will write at one of 2 or 3 fixed
 speeds.


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  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
  Of Austin Murphy
  Sent: September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
  To: Brad Hillebrand
  Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
  Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive
 
 
  I don't use them, but I did some research.
  One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
  write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
  disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
  one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
 
  LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
  I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
  w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
 
  Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
  write at 120 MB/Sec.
 
  Austin
 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Justin Piszcz


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote:

 FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
 -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...

 Harry

But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah?  If the data
stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s.

I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the disk
reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the
catalog up to writing that fast?  No, compression was being used.

Justin.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Schaefer, Harry
This was already compressed single stream video files, so it was writing
at ~105 mb/s uncompressed, and I was looking at the st** device for the
tape drive when gathering the mb/sec figures...

- Harry

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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:19 AM
To: Schaefer, Harry; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

What type of data? 

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Schaefer, Harry
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:09 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
-xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...

Harry

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin
Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:23 PM
To: Brad Hillebrand
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T1 tape drive

On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape
drive?

I don't use them, but I did some research.
One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
write at 120 MB/Sec.

Austin
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Justin Piszcz


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote:

 Native drive speed of the T10K is 120 MB/s ... it is even closer to
 130 MB/s..; so If you are using compression and you feed the data fast
 enough you can go over the 170 MB/s.. I had peaks over the 180 MB/s



 On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote:

 FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
 -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...

 Harry

 But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah?  If the data
 stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s.

 I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the disk
 reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the
 catalog up to writing that fast?  No, compression was being used.

 Justin.

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I was referring to LTO-X but nice info!

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Gregory Demilde
The biggest problem is to have an architecture that can feed that
transfer rate  ..  because at those speed, one drive just saturates a
2 Gb FC link. ;op

On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote:

  Native drive speed of the T10K is 120 MB/s ... it is even closer to
  130 MB/s..; so If you are using compression and you feed the data fast
  enough you can go over the 170 MB/s.. I had peaks over the 180 MB/s
 
 
 
  On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote:
 
  FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from iostat
  -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...
 
  Harry
 
  But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah?  If the data
  stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s.
 
  I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the disk
  reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the
  catalog up to writing that fast?  No, compression was being used.
 
  Justin.
 
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 I was referring to LTO-X but nice info!

 Justin.



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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread Brad Hillebrand
I agree, in my environment I have not seen anything that can saturate a 2GB
FC link.  I am thinking that choosing a drive with more speeds will give
improved real-world performance rather than a drive that can peak very
high.  (although peaks of 180 MB/s would blow my socks off :) )

On 9/13/07, Gregory Demilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The biggest problem is to have an architecture that can feed that
 transfer rate  ..  because at those speed, one drive just saturates a
 2 Gb FC link. ;op

 On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Gregory Demilde wrote:
 
   Native drive speed of the T10K is 120 MB/s ... it is even closer to
   130 MB/s..; so If you are using compression and you feed the data fast
   enough you can go over the 170 MB/s.. I had peaks over the 180 MB/s
  
  
  
   On 9/13/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
   On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Schaefer, Harry wrote:
  
   FWIW, I have done write tests with ours and based on output from
 iostat
   -xtc, the write speeds were between 100-105 mb/sec...
  
   Harry
  
   But that is just the read speed of the hard drives yeah?  If the data
   stream is compressed 2:1 the tape only writes then at 50-52.5 MiB/s.
  
   I recall watching catalog backups write to tape and I would see the
 disk
   reading at 100-120 MiB/s, was the LTO-2 tape that is was backing the
   catalog up to writing that fast?  No, compression was being used.
  
   Justin.
  
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  I was referring to LTO-X but nice info!
 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:21:52AM -0400, Brad Hillebrand wrote:
 OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option?  How long have
 these been out?

They have encryption capability in the drive, but it's not as simple as
just saying encryption on.  You have to have something to manage the
keys.  I think there's a key SDK out for developers, but I don't know
what software is yet able to do this for the LTO-4.  I've seen nothing
that suggests NetBackup will be able to handle this in the near future.

In addition some libraries (like spectralogic) can manage the keys for
drives in the library.

This is all from talking to vendors and other folks.  I was interested
in them, but don't have any in place yet.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive

2007-09-12 Thread Austin Murphy
On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T1 tape drive?

I don't use them, but I did some research.
One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed.  They can only
write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec.  There is no in between. Your
disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at
one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.

LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but
w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.

Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k.  Both can
write at 120 MB/Sec.

Austin
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