I'm running hardware LTO4 encrytion with 12 IBM LTO's in a Sun L1400 with KMS on nb 6.5.4 and haven't seen any issues.
On 3/4/10, Eagle, Kent <kea...@wilmingtontrust.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > > > We are running NBU 6.5.3.1 with a Quantum (ADIC) i2000 Scalar library. > We currently have a bunch of LTO2 drives, but want to switch to LTO4 and > get rid of our inline encryption appliances. We know about QEKM and > QSKM, but are trying to go with a more vendor neutral solution. Also, an > i500 or another i2000 library just to enable a built in feature of LTO4 > is going to be a tuff sell to the bean counters. L > > > > In doing my research, I discovered that there is an issue with status 83 > errors if you try to use KSM in an SSO environment. There are scant few > technotes, etc.., but once you get deeper into the support matrix, > people seem to know about it. > > > > Etrack #1765730 (Document ID #329579) indicates that it will be fixed in > 6.5.6, which has not been posted for download yet. > > I can find no indication that NBU 7.x has this problem, or that it has > been fixed. Having lived through all of the major upgrades, I know that > support will be focused on 7.x problems before 6.x problems see > daylight. At least that's the way it was from 3 to 4, 4 to 5, and 5 to > 6. > > > > Has anyone received an engineering binary to address this, or were you > able to wrangle more info out of Symnatec? Are you successfully running > KSM right now in an SSO environment? I'd love to hear of any and all > experiences, both negative (and hopefully) positive. > > > > P.S. - Yes, we've tested software based encryption; and the overhead was > so great in our environment (plus the hit we took on compression) that > it just isn't feasible. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Kent > > > > > Visit our website at www.wilmingtontrust.com > > Investment products are not insured by the FDIC or any other governmental > agency, are not deposits of or other obligations of or guaranteed by > Wilmington Trust or any other bank or entity, and are subject to risks, > including a possible loss of the principal amount invested. This e-mail and > any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or proprietary > information. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity > who is the intended recipient. Unauthorized use of this information is > prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender > by replying to this message and delete this material from any system it may > be on. > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu