Enviorment: NT Compaq servers (6000/DL580/DL380) with NC6136 Gigabit 1000/full(driver just updated to latest ver) Backing up 3T of SQL,Zip, and flat files on a Scalar1000 shared jukebox with 26 Ait2 drives spread across 3 servers ( 2 storage nodes). Client machines are varied Compaqs, mostly NT clusters (NT4 and 2K), all with 100MB/full nics, no firewalls in between. Legato ver 6.1.1 and just recently 6.1.3.
Situation: across any of the storage nodes a variety of backups are presented to the drives, but I can only see 12MB/SEc total throughput at any time on any of the storage nodes giving a total throughput of 36MB/sec across all drives at any given instant.
Does any one get better throughput on this type of setup? The drives are all capable of 12MB/sec individually. I am wondering if I am hitting an OS limit on NT or Legato on NT.
I'd like to hear from the NT folks out there as to the throughputs you are getting. I know the Unix boys would be chomping at the bit to say "Get a Unix box to drive it". I may have to eventually but for now, thats not an option. I have a bottleneck somewhere and it would help to get some reference points.
Situation: across any of the storage nodes a variety of backups are presented to the drives, but I can only see 12MB/SEc total throughput at any time on any of the storage nodes giving a total throughput of 36MB/sec across all drives at any given instant.
Does any one get better throughput on this type of setup? The drives are all capable of 12MB/sec individually. I am wondering if I am hitting an OS limit on NT or Legato on NT.
I'd like to hear from the NT folks out there as to the throughputs you are getting. I know the Unix boys would be chomping at the bit to say "Get a Unix box to drive it". I may have to eventually but for now, thats not an option. I have a bottleneck somewhere and it would help to get some reference points.
