They managed to find the correct combination of driver and voodoo and things are now talking. He was chorteling over a 700 mb/min backup speed earlier, of which I fully understand. When you've been looking at backups that barely peak over 200 megs/minute, seeing one spew forth at 700 megs a minute is cause for giggling with glee. And seeing a Verify go at 1600 megs/minute is cause for laughing out loud with joy.
Depending on how things go, we may end up picking up the fibre-channel interface for the Scalar. It'll allow our backups to stream that much faster, plus allow for future expansion in the backup-heads. The server that is driving it right now is a wee bit under-powered when it comes to PCI bus, so we'll start bottlenecking well before we hit the theoretical limits on dual GigE ports.
Depending on how things go, we may end up picking up the fibre-channel interface for the Scalar. It'll allow our backups to stream that much faster, plus allow for future expansion in the backup-heads. The server that is driving it right now is a wee bit under-powered when it comes to PCI bus, so we'll start bottlenecking well before we hit the theoretical limits on dual GigE ports.