T2000 (Niagara) for storage?
Greetings,
We're working up a backup system, and from experience it looks like a well-configured V240 will be sufficient. A tape library with two fibre channel LTO3 tape drives will be involved, and said backup server will be backing up both SAN-attached (SAM-QFS) local filesystems and remote host-based filesystems via gigabit ethernet. Backup software such as Veritas Netbackup or Legato NetWorker is being discussed.
Anyway, my question regarding this scenario is: How would a similarly configured T2000 do for such an application, as compared to a V240? I expect that these enterprise backup applications are likely not highly multithreaded, but they certainly do involve running multiple processes, and often multiple copies of the same process. And the bulk of the work seems to be done by the kernel, moving bits between interfaces, basically. The Solaris-10 kernel should be pretty well multithread-aware, if one believes the advertising (:-). So, has anyone done this, and if so, how is it working out?
I have a similar question about the T2000, but in regard to replacing a 280R which acts as our SAM-QFS metadata master, SAM-FS archiver, and NFS-server (gigabit ethernet) for a couple dozen client machines. Does anyone have experience with the T2000 system in this other storage-related scenario?
Thanks and regards,
Marion
