RE: VTLs and backup time -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: VTLs and backup time
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:24:45 +0000
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During backups last night we had our technician running cacti to measure the usage of the FC port.
A single system, running a backup with 4 drives running in parallel, was eating 6.7Gbps.
It wouldn't be hard at all to blow the doors off of that 8gb adapter by simply running multiple systems at the same time.

Compare that to a "300 MB/s Native data rate" of IBM's LTO 9 tape drive at https://www.ibm.com/storage/tape
Rather like comparing a high speed laser printer to the Flintstones bird doing typing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dksPCIJx9VU

Rob Berendt

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