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Recommendations Performance impact Connection type
Upgrade to Gigabit Ethernet or
Fibre Channel.
POOR . 100 Base T and 10 Base T Ethernet do not
have enough bandwidth to support any of the
drives and would require too many streams to make
concurrency practical. Ethernet: 100 Base
T, 10 Base T
Use a dedicated disk array or
upgrade to RAID 5.
POOR . Add-in RAID controllers, RAID on a chip
(ROC), RAID on the mother board (ROMB), internal
parallel SCSI, and internal IDE (non-RAID) are
inadequate transport mechanisms for LTO tape
drives.
Internal disks on
backup server
Operating system configuration
The operating system configuration and other programs running on the host computer can impact the
ability of the host computer to transfer files from the disks to the tape drive.
Windows
To improve backup performance and improve SAN stability, shutdown and disable the Windows
Removable Storage Manager unless the backup software requires it:
1. From the Windows start menu, select Control Panel .
2. In the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools .
3. In the Administrative Tools, select Services .
4. In Services, right-click Removable Storage and select Stop . The Status should be blank as shown
in Figure 93 .
Figure 93 Removable Storage service
.
5. Right-click Removable Storage again and select Properties .
6. Change the Startup type to Disabled and click OK .
Stop as many programs as possible while a backup or restore is in progress. Be especially aware of
monitoring applications, such as anti-virus software, which check every file that is read. If you are
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