Advanced Backup to Disk Performance White Paper

HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive
The high performance Ultrium 960 tape drive is configured either with the default block size = 64 KB
or with the optimal block size = 256 KB.
Figure 14. HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive – Test Environment
March 2005 Data Protector 5.5 - Advanced Backup to Disk Test Plan 2
Advanced Backup to Disk
Ultrium960 Tape Drive
HP OpenView Storage
Data Protector 5.5
2 Gigabit Fibre Channel
HP ProLiant DL380G4
3.2 GHz, 4GB RAM, 2 CPUs
HP StorageWorks Ultrium960
Tape Drive
Ultra320 SCSI
Primary Disk Array MSA1000 with 14 x 146GB/10K disks
configured as RAID1+0, 8 x 100GB LUNs configured
Secondary SATA-based Disk Array MSA1500 with 12 x 250GB/7.2K disks
Backup to Secondary
Array
Backup to Tape
from Secondary Array
Figure 15. HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive – Block Size 256 KB (Default 64 KB)
20