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industry leader in backup performance capabilities. The DLT Tape Array II, which uses 35/70 GB DLT drives, sets new standards in high-speed backup performance. Early in 1997, Compaq performed a series of tests to examine the performance of the Compaq 35/70 GB DLT drive and the DLT Tape Array II. The - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 2
THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION REMAINS WITH RECIPIENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPAQ BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, Compaq and ProLiant are registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Netelligent is a trademark and/or service mark of Compaq - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 3
performed concurrently (live) or during very small scheduled outage windows. In either case, the backup must be performed in a minimum amount of time: Speed is . The chart below illustrates typical peak server backup speeds for the last five years. Today, Compaq passes 165 gigabytes per hour (GB/hr - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 4
speed at which the disk drive storage system can supply data to the tape system (referred to as feed speed). • The tape technology selected to perform the backup. In the tests, the system that provided optimum performance consisted of a Compaq ProLiant 6000 with four or eight drives in a DLT Tape - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 5
was performed on Compaq ProLiant 5000 and ProLiant 6000 systems so that up to four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors could be used. An assumption was made that most large systems would have at least two processors, and the majority of tests were performed with that number. Memory A system with 256 - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 6
servers. Many dual buses are stacked buses. They use ProLiant 5000 and ProLiant 6000 permits use of multiple SMART-2/P Array Controllers, multiple SCSI Bridge Memory PCI Compaq SMART-2/P Array Controller is the best choice. It has two channels, and a minimum of four drives per channel should be used - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 7
speed of backup that the backup program reports. (The backup programs used for these tests [Cheyenne ARCserve and JetServe] report the compressibility for faster retrieval of individual files. Both methods were included in Compaq's testing scenarios. It should be noted that some image backup - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 8
It is recommended that this be used only for slower devices, not for multiple tape drives. The ProLiant 6000 has two embedded Wide-Ultra SCSI Controllers, of which the Bport is available for use with externally mounted tape devices. The A port can also be used; however, an optional cable is required - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 9
to 2 2 to 4 4 to 4 Image Backup Image Restore By File Backup By File Restore Figure 6: Performance results from tests comparing various proportions of 53c875 SCSI cards to DLT drives (shown at the bases of the columns). Image Backup/Restore 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 Backup/Restore by File - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 10
4.11 Cheyenne JETserve 4.0 Plus Image 8 GB 4:1 RAIT-0 ProLiant 6000, three Pentium Pro 200 processors, 512 K cache, 384 MB RAM 224-GB array (four SMART-2/P Array Controllers with fifty-six 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq off-the-shelf products) To observe the - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 11
hr 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Backup Restore Figure 7: Performance of IntranetWare backups and restores by numbers of SCSI cards in relation to numbers of tape drives (shown at the bases of the columns). 1 to 1 1 have different effects on CPU use. Another influence on restore speed is the rate at - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 12
ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 80-GB array (two SMART-2/P Array Controllers with twenty 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq tapes. Numerous tests showed the two card/four drive setup to be the highest performer. The 2:1 versus - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 13
-performance backup and restore under Novell IntranetWare with different proportions of SCSI cards to tape drives (shown at the bases of the columns). *Hardware compression turned off. **This test used 4:1 compression; all others, 2:1 compression. 2:1 2:1 2:1 2:1 2:1 2:1 (but drive compression was - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 14
ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 40-GB array (one SMART-2/P Array Controller with ten 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq speed exceeded the backup speed in some cases, apparently because the SMART-2/P Array Controllers cache - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 15
0.0 1 to 1 1 to 2 2 to 2 2 to 4 4 to 4 4 to 8 Restore Backup Figure 9: Local backup and restore performance under Windows NT with various proportions of SCSI cards and 35/70 GB DLT drives (shown at bases of columns). 1 1 30.1 14.2 1 2 41.1 36.3 2 2 25.7 33.6 2 4 37.0 38.4 4 4 34 - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 16
using even larger systems with faster feed speeds. These tests differ only in that a ProLiant 6000 was used, with three Pentium Pro 4:1 Compression Figure 10: Backup speed results on the ProLiant 6000 test under Windows NT, with various proportions of SCSI cards and 35/70 GB DLT drives (shown at - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 17
ProLiant 6000, three Pentium Pro 200 processors, 512 K cache, 384 MB RAM 224 GB array (four SMART-2/P Array Controllers with fifty-six 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq all cases, the Compaq Array Configuration Utility was used to configure the Compaq disk drive - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 18
Jobs: Number of Cheyenne backup jobs started concurrently under Windows NT. • SCSI Cards: Number of Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards used to connect to the 35/70 GB DLT drives. • DLT: Number of tape drives used. • RAIT Level: When a job used more than one drive, the drives were configured as RAIT 0. • SMART - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 19
6.0 for Windows NT Image 2 GB 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 8:1 RAIT-0 ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 96-GB array (two SMART-2/P Array Controllers with twenty-four 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq off-the-shelf products) To compare the - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 20
cases, it is not something the customer can control. In investigations into real customer data set composition, it was found that most servers drive compression feature turned off. If data set compressibility is 2:1 or greater, customers will achieve significantly faster backup speeds using the 35/70 - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 21
NT Image single job 2 GB 2:1, 4:1 RAIT-0 and RAIT-5 ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 80-GB array (two SMART-2/P Array Controllers with twenty 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq off-the-shelf products) To determine the impact - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 22
ECG075.0997 (cont.) DLT Tape Array II ... 70 GB/hr 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2-4, 2:1 4-4, 2:1 2-4, 4:1 RAIT-5 (CPU use = 41%) RAIT-0 (CPU use = 7%) 4-4, 4:1 Figure 13: RAIT-5 and RAIT-0 performance with various proportions of cards to drives and two compression ratios (shown at bases of columns - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 23
ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 80-GB array (two SMART-2/P Array Controllers with twenty 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq dedicated network card in the server is recommended for installations using this type of backup. - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 24
(Figure 14). 4 Pentium Pro Processors 256 MB Memory Secondary PCI Bus Slots 7 Cards Devices SCSI L1T1 L1T2 8 SCSI T5 T6 9 NETX2 system using Compaq DLT Tape Array and DLT Library solutions. Such a system can have more than 250 GB of space available for typical server applications. - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 25
for NetWare high-performance push agent option RAIT-0 ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM 80-GB array (two SMART-2/P Array Controllers with twenty 4-GB drives) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq off-the-shelf products) 10/100TX - Ethernet over - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 26
Tape Array II ... 35 30 25 20 GB/hr 15 10 5 0 A B C D E F Figure 15: Results of backups performed with Windows NT Server pulling from IntranetWare. A 10TX No 1 1 3.6 B 10TX Yes 1 1 3.9 C 100TX No 1 1 19.0 D 100TX Yes 1 1 21.1 E 100 TX No 2 2 (2 clients) 25 - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 27
NT By file four jobs 2 GB 4:1 RAIT-0 (not significant when using one drive) ProLiant 6000, four Pentium Pro 200 processors, 512K cache, 2 GB RAM 2.5-terabyte FC-AL drive array 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 cards (All Compaq off-the-shelf products) To determine whether the DLT Tape Array - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 28
II ... Fibre Host Controllers 1 - 6 Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 Adapters 1 & 2 Network Adapter Loop Expansion Modules 1 - 6 RAID-Controller RAID-Controller Fibre Arrays 6 per LEM Redundant Fans 3 2 1 0 `` 3 2 1 0 Power Suppy Power Suppy File storage capacity: 2.6 terabytes 6 x 6 x (8 x 9.1 GB - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 29
when using one drive) ProLiant 5000, two Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256K cache, 256 MB RAM; and ProLiant 6000, four Pentium Pro 200 processors, 256 K cache, 256 MB RAM Embedded or SMART-2/P SCSI (53C825) Controller (see details below) 35/70 GB DLT drive(s) Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 Cards (All Compaq off - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 30
5000, one SMART-2/P Array Controller, 12 4-GB Fast-Wide SCSI drives 3. ProLiant 5000, two SMART-2/P Array Controllers, 24 4-GB Fast-Wide SCSI drives 4. ProLiant 6000, four SMART-2/P Array Controllers, fifty-six 4 GB Fast-Wide SCSI drives 33 GB/hr 30 GB/hr 55 GB/hr 126 GB/hr 48 GB/hr 107 GB/hr - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 31
jobs, but only with adequate feed speed. When the read:write acceleration ratio was changed from 50:50 to 100:0 on the SMART-2/P Array Controller setup, there was no significant change. It is recommended the acceleration ratio setting remain at the default of 50:50. - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 32
Tape Array II sets new standards in high-speed backup performance. The tests documented in this brief demonstrate that Compaq delivers very high speed backup solutions for an assortment of server environments, with the ability to back up data at speeds exceeding 150 GB/hr. Fast, reliable backups can - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 33
Compaq parts. SCSI data transfers will operate poorly (or not at all) when signal conditions are degraded due to low-quality cabling. Always screw the external cable heads into the SCSI , which in turn can damage the drive (as well as lose data). If the cartridge appears damaged, do not use it. It - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 34
, usually at a factor of at least 2:1. The drive can compress some data at more than 8:1, but to be conservative, the industry uses 2:1 as an average figure. When backing up servers containing an assortment of general end-user file data, the DLT Tape Array II easily exceeds 100 GB per tape cartridge - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 35
NOTES FOR THE COMPAQ DLT TAPE ARRAY II The Model 4 DLT Tape Array II comes with: • Rack-mountable array cabinet with internal power supply. • Four internally-mounted 35/70 GB DLT drives. • Four DLT data cartridges. • One DLT cleaning tape. • Two internal SCSI cables. • Two external 12-foot Fast - Compaq ProLiant 6000 | Compaq DLT Tape Array II: High-Performance Backup of Ente - Page 36
and ProLiant 6000 with dual peer PCI bus system architecture Two Intel Pentium Pro processors with 256K L2 cache 256-MB ECC DIMMs Compaq SMART-2/P Array Controller(s) Two SMART-2/P Array Controllers feeding four channels, with a total of 24 drives Compaq 4.3-GB Pluggable 1" Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 Compaq
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Since its introduction in February, 1996, the Compaq DLT Tape Array (which uses Compaq
15/30 GB DLT drives) has been an industry leader in backup performance capabilities. The
DLT Tape Array II, which uses 35/70 GB DLT drives, sets new standards in high-speed backup
performance.
Early in 1997, Compaq performed a series of tests to examine the performance of the Compaq
35/70 GB DLT drive and the DLT Tape Array II. The objective of these tests was to find the
highest-performance configurations in a variety of backup scenarios on Compaq servers
running Windows NT and Novell IntranetWare network operating systems.
The Compaq DLT Tape Array II provides high-capacity, high-speed tape storage for use in
local and remote backup strategies. It uses the Compaq 35/70 GB DLT drive, which is
engineered for superior performance. This brief addresses the technical aspects of high-
performance backups that can reach and exceed 165 gigabytes per hour (GB/hr) with off-the-
shelf Compaq hardware.
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