I made several pictures of tape library which serves as primary backup facility in our data centre. Here what you can achieve with this library in maximum configuration:
- 18 drives with more than 9TB/hour throughput.
- Up to 575 cartridges and 862TB of uncompressed storage.
Our configuration is rather small, 2 drives and 45TB of storage.
Click pictures to enlarge.
Here you can see how robo-arm performs library inventorization by reading barcodes with infrared scanner:
Both tape drives and robot are connected to NetApp filer with SCSI cables. All data is backed up from disk shelves directly to tape library via NDMP protocol. There is no need to feed data through backup server which eliminates any LAN congestion.
Here are connections to NetApp:
Tags: backup, drive, Filer, LTO, ndmp, netpp, SCSI, sl500, storagetek, sun, tape, tape library
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October 22, 2011 at 3:02 pm |
it seems very nice
October 28, 2011 at 3:49 am |
Hi. Could you help me about Sun storage sl 500.
October 28, 2011 at 11:12 am |
Sure, what’s up?
November 8, 2011 at 9:36 am
I logon only oem user our sun storage sl500. which set of permissions does oem user have?
What operations can be done using oem user account?
November 8, 2011 at 10:46 am |
There are a fixed set of user IDs at a site. The user IDs include admin (customer administrator), service (Oracle support representative), and oem (third-party field service technician). When you log in successfully, the SLC displays your user ID in the status bar of the screen.
November 9, 2011 at 2:54 am |
Hi Nik. thank you. Could you send email to me Sun storage sl500 connection and linux installation guide? my email address is sugaraa1011@gmail.com
November 9, 2011 at 1:51 pm |
You can freely download StorageTek SL500 documentation from Oracle web-site.
November 10, 2011 at 12:38 am |
Ok thank you. I’m reading documentation. Could I connect messenger or E-mail ? get some tip and ask a question?
November 22, 2011 at 1:47 am |
Hi Nik. Sun storagetek sl500 same as sun storedge l500?
January 3, 2012 at 6:35 am |
Hi NIk What type backup software and Operating system Should I use?
January 3, 2012 at 8:10 am |
Any software which supports tape libraries. For instance we use Symantec Backup Exec.
January 31, 2012 at 7:43 am |
Thank you for your suggestion Nik.
March 16, 2012 at 9:58 am |
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April 27, 2013 at 8:22 pm |
My SL500 goes offline when reading tapes. can you possibly give advice?
April 27, 2013 at 10:09 pm |
The best advice would be to call technical support. Seems like a hardware issue.