Hey folks,
I have some special question about the landscape integration of some HPE products and hope some of you with much more experience can light me up!
To make it simple with just a few words, I want to reorg my landscape (historically every team has its own backup landscape, pls don’t ask why ..) and want one B2D and Tape Library for LS2 and LS3, later for LS4+.
The picture shows a simple example of our SAP backup landscape, LS1 is just for one customer (12 SAP server (housing)), LS2 is used by 5 customers with (13 SAP server) and LS3 are one of my bigger landscapes with over 50 clients (SAP/SQL/AS/FS).
LS1 writes the files via ETH 1Gbit/s through the backup server to the tape library.
LS2 writes the files via ETH 1Gbit/s through the backup server to the tape library.
LS3 writes for systems with >2TB databases through the backup server to the tape library (B2D is to small and in that case to slow).
LS3 writes for systems with <2TB databases directly with Catalyst on client side to the B2D, afterwards copy jobs on DP runs to write the data through the backup server to the tape library.
LS2+3 are running Data Protector, LS1 will at Q1.
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My thoughts are, removing both NEO tape libraries from LS2+3 and put an extendable MSL6480 tape library (>6 tape drives) for both landscapes, on a fibre channel switch. So I just have only one tape library with enough tape drives to meet my backup window but be able to use two or more backup server because of different customers and VLANs.
Now the questions:
- first, could that be a solution?
- at the moment the tape libraries are directly via FC connected to their own backup server, how does it, if it, work with a tape library connected to a FC switch and both server want write?
- if it works, is it possible to let the clients, they writes to the tape drives through the backup server, writes directly to the tape drives?
- what would you do? :)
Thanks for any advice.
Best regards and a Happy New Year,
Tobias
