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Server Configuration Details for Data Storage Design (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)

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This section provides information about the servers vital to storage and backup/restore — servers running SQL Server and the backup tape device. For information about how other servers, such as the front-end Web servers and Active Directory servers, were configured, see Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Hosting Configuration and Experience, the first paper in this series. See Table 2 in the Hardware RAID Configuration for Data Storage section of this paper for information about the hard disk drive configuration on these servers.

The front-end Web servers ran Veritas backup agent software and Hewlett-Packard Compaq Insight Manager software. The servers running SQL Server ran Hewlett-Packard SAN software and the Veritas backup agent software. The backup server ran Veritas Backup Exec 8.60 for Windows Servers.

The backup device was a Dell PowerVault 120T – DLT4000 Tape Autoloader with the following specifications:

  • DLT Tape Device: Single Operation Tape Unit (Can perform one backup or restore operations at one time, not concurrent tape operations)

  • Capacity: Holds 7 tape drives

  • Tape Type: DLTtape IV 40/80GB Native/Compressed