Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-03 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption Again, that is why I went with KMS, (kms is NOT MESO) it is application managed encryption that tells the tape drive to do the encryption NOT the media server, kms just has the keys on the master server and NB talks

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
encryption? Regards, Tal -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: 01 March 2010 21:26 To: Kevin C Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Len Boyle
-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Shekel Tal Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:39 AM To: Justin Piszcz; Kevin C Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption I have also been

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you loose the ability to compress effectively when using compression. Have you noticed an effect

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you loose the ability to compress effectively when using compression. Have you noticed an effect on your tape drive

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you loose the ability to compress effectively when using compression. Have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
Tal Cc: Kevin C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: I have also been looking at this as an option. One of the considerations is the effect encryption has on compression. I have heard you loose the ability to compress effectively when using compression. Have

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpis...@lucidpixels.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 14:49 To: Shekel Tal Cc: Kevin C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: I have also been looking at this as an option. One

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
...@administaff.com [mailto:judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com] Sent: 02 March 2010 14:42 To: Shekel Tal; jpis...@lucidpixels.com; kc.on.the@gmail.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption I am now using kms, and because

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption Tal, I can only speak of the IBM LTO4 tape drives, I assume the others are the same. IBM says that each block of data to be written to the tape is compressed or not then encrypted. They do not compress blocks

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption Hi, A mixture of DB/FS data. Justin. On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote: Well that looks pretty good Not sure if you are comfortable sharing info like this but what kind of data does that represent? Normal User File data? Database data

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption Hi, I have read others' reviews on MSEO-- from what I understand it will peg the CPU and reduce throughput dramatically to high-speed drives. Has anyone not seen that? Justin. On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Shekel Tal wrote

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread Shekel Tal
@gmail.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption Hi, I have read others' reviews on MSEO-- from what I understand it will peg the CPU and reduce throughput dramatically to high-speed drives. Has anyone not seen that? Justin. On Tue, 2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
@gmail.com; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption From the research I have done on the CPU requirements: It takes roughly 73 clock cycles on a Windows or Linux server or about 87 clock cycles on UNIX server to perform MSEO compression

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-02 Thread David Magda
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:26, Shekel Tal wrote: It takes roughly 73 clock cycles on a Windows or Linux server or about 87 clock cycles on UNIX server to perform MSEO compression/encryption per BYTE of data backed up. Backing up 100 MB/sec of data through a Solaris media server requires 8.7 GHz of

[Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-01 Thread Kevin C
Sorry if this topic is been discussed before. Looking for members who have implemented LTO4 based encryption on Sun/StorageTek/Oracle platforms, any useful comments/journeys/guidance. We are on HP LTO4 drives with SL500/SL3000 libraries. From what I understand, this pretty much limits us to the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Sun/StorageTek based LTO4 encryption

2010-03-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Kevin C wrote: Sorry if this topic is been discussed before. Looking for members who have implemented LTO4 based encryption on Sun/StorageTek/Oracle platforms, any useful comments/journeys/guidance. We are on HP LTO4 drives with SL500/SL3000 libraries. From what I