[Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows
A couple versions back, both versions of OS versions of NetBackup, there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While officially supported many people reported problems with device ownership. Windows was somewhat grabby and liked to possess shared devices rather than happily share them. We're probably starting a process now with the upcoming 7.1 and our first implementation of Windows servers as media servers (either Win2003 or Win2008 depending on when they're built). What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5) between Windows Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers? -M Mark Donaldson - Systems Storage Administrator Staples - Broomfield, CO ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Donaldson, Mark mark.donald...@staples.com wrote: A couple versions back, both versions of OS versions of NetBackup, there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While officially supported many people reported problems with device ownership. Windows was somewhat grabby and liked to possess shared devices rather than happily share them. We're probably starting a process now with the upcoming 7.1 and our first implementation of Windows servers as media servers (either Win2003 or Win2008 depending on when they're built). What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5) between Windows Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers? We have been sharing drives for years between Windows and Solaris. Recently we also added NetApp in the SSO environment. It all works well. We're about to find out how well Linux plays in the sandbox. I don't think we've had an SSO issue in a long time. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows
We occasionally get an sso drive locked on our win2003 system, but it's always the netapp that won't let the drive go. David Spearman From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday-02-March- 2011 11:43 AM To: Donaldson, Mark Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Donaldson, Mark mark.donald...@staples.commailto:mark.donald...@staples.com wrote: A couple versions back, both versions of OS versions of NetBackup, there were problems SSO sharing tape drives with Windows boxes. While officially supported many people reported problems with device ownership. Windows was somewhat grabby and liked to possess shared devices rather than happily share them. We're probably starting a process now with the upcoming 7.1 and our first implementation of Windows servers as media servers (either Win2003 or Win2008 depending on when they're built). What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5) between Windows Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers? We have been sharing drives for years between Windows and Solaris. Recently we also added NetApp in the SSO environment. It all works well. We're about to find out how well Linux plays in the sandbox. I don't think we've had an SSO issue in a long time. .../Ed ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows
I've tried it (Linux RHEL master) with some SAN media server types running Windows. I've had mixed success, but I'm suspecting it's a configuration issue. My setup scrambles the tape inventory, so I get a horde of frozen tapes because it gets mismatched between what it thinks is the right inventory and the barcode on the tape once it hits the drive. Oddly, when I set it up on our Oracle linux boxes, they work fine, just the Windows ones sharing tape drives from a linux master. -Original Message- Subject: [Veritas-bu] SSO tape drives Windows What's been your more recent experience sharing tape drives (Ultrium 5) between Windows Unix (AIX/Linux) media servers? -M Mark Donaldson - Systems Storage Administrator Staples - Broomfield, CO ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
