Compaq TL895 manual Quickspecs, Compaq StorageWorks, Enterprise Backup Solution, Components

QUICKSPECS

Compaq StorageWorks

Enterprise Backup Solution

COMPONENTS

64-Bit, 66MHz FC Host Bus Adapter – PCI 120186-B21

Fibre Channel Host Bus

Adapter – PCI, 32-Bit

223180-B21

Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit, 33MHz PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Tru64 168794-B21

DS-KGPSA-CA

Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit, 33MHz PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for NT 176479-B21

PCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Solaris 380576-001DS-SWSA4-PC

64-Bit S-Bus-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Solaris 123503-001DS-SWSA4-SC

Fibre Channel Storage Hub 7 234453-001

Fibre Channel Storage Hub 12 295573-001

Compaq Storage Hub 12

Management Option

159262-B21

SW FC-AL Switch 8

177862-B21

SW FC-AL Switch 3-Port

Expansion Module

177863-B21

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Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS)

Exponential growth of information has led to an enormous volume of data stored across enterprise networks. IT organizations are finding that backing up and restoring data is becoming more and more challenging. Compaq customers using Microsoft Windows NT/2000, Novell NetWare, Compaq Tru64 UNIX or Sun Solaris™ servers need a scalable, high-performance solution to meet their present and future data storage backup and restoration requirements. The Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) provides a unique solution to the backup dilemma by providing a consolidated backup of multiple servers over a high speed, independent Fibre Channel storage network to centrally attached SCSI tape libraries.

Compaq understands that customers have a variety of product and solution needs based on price, performance, total cost of ownership, lower management costs, future scalability, and investment protection. To that end, Compaq has segmented EBS to fit various market segments. The Compaq StorageWorks EBS family segmentation will help provide customers with a quick understanding of which EBS solution is right for their needs.

EBS for Workgroups

EBS for Workgroups is an entry level, Fibre Channel data protection solution for up to seven Compaq ProLiant or x86 servers in Windows NT/2000 and NetWare environments. EBS for Workgroups provides the option of configuring a backup solution with either a Fibre Channel hub, or a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop switch.

Using an FC arbitrated loop switch, is support of the RA4100 SAN which allows AIT or DLT libraries to be consolidated with disk products on the same Storage Area Network (SAN).

Using Fibre Channel hubs, EBS for Workgroups provides cost-effective solution bundles, EBS ARCPaq with Computer Associates ARCserve™ or EBS BackPaq with VERITAS Backup Exec™, at a fraction of the cost of the existing investment.

EBS for Departments

EBS for Departments is a data protection solution that helps shrink backup windows and reduce management costs for customers with 6 to 20 ProLiant or x86 servers in Windows NT/2000 and NetWare environments. With EBS for Departments customers may employ single or cascaded 12-port fibre channel hubs to consolidate backup to a centralized library, or they may look to consolidate tape and disk resources on a fabric switch-based Storage Area Network (SAN) with the new low-cost StorageWorks Fibre Channel Switch EL-8.

Providing the backbone for a full fabric switched SAN for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and/or NetWare environments, EBS SANPaq includes the FC SAN Switch 8-EL, the Modular Data Router, and 5 licenses of backup software with SAN-enabling options. Part of the EBS for Departments product segment, SANPaq with Computer Associates ARCserve and SANPaq with VERITAS Backup Exec are perfect for storage resellers who want an off-the-shelf solution to begin deploying SANs. SANPaq allows resellers to provide added consulting services and take advantage of software option and upgrade sales without the pricing barriers normally associated with SANs.

EBS for Data Centers

The Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) for Data Centers is a Fibre Channel backup and restore solution targeted towards those customers looking to consolidate their data protection schemes across multi- vendor platforms and heterogeneous operating systems. The solution leverages the Compaq Fibre Channel 8 or 16 port FC switch and offers a customer the first Compaq SAN solution - marrying disk and tape in the same Fibre Channel domain.

The Enterprise Backup Solution for Data Centers allows multiple Windows NT/2000, Tru64 Unix, and Sun Solaris servers, attached to a Fibre Channel switch, to share a SCSI DLT or AIT Library. In addition to this device-sharing feature, servers maintain the ability to transfer data directly to the attached tape devices and will therefore continue to experience the high data transfer rates needed to keep DLT or AIT drives streaming during backup or restore - a key to maximum performance.

DA-10242-02-009 — 11.15.2000