How do you do Capacity Planning?

[MaineDCAdmin]

I've been trying to use various command line commands to assess the utilization of the tape library within a NetBackup Storage Domain. The Storage Domain consists of a Solaris Master/Media Server running NBU Ent 5.1 MP3a with 20 LTO-II drives, and an additional 4 SSO drives shared between 5 UNIX SAN Media Servers. For a while I was able to make use of the nbardbex within NBAR, but have a made a couple of disturbing discoveries, the worst being the start time is the scheduled start time (there does not appear to be a means to discover actual start time). I have tried the script for bpdbjobs -all_columns using the pointer from an earlier post to no avail. The PERL script using the dumper module gives all the information I could ever waant and then some. If I could only figure out how to build a MySQL DB and populate it.

Are there other commercial, shareware, freeware tools out there folks use to gather information about the utilaization of their tape libraries, DSSUs, and VTLs?

 

[Vela]

There's software out there, but it cost money.

Check out-

tek tools backup profiler $7-20k
Aptare backup reporting software $20-30k

 

[Stumpr]

VERITAS Software - Command Central Services

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and that is truth.

 

[RustyMajor]

I highly recommend Aptare Storage Console (

http://www.aptare.com).

And if you have a big environment with multiple Masters, it will be more than $30k.