Adding more tape systems was one way to fix the problems, but it would have meant a significant investment. Foxwoods would have needed more hardware as well as a software upgrade. That approach could have quickly run into the six figure range, he says.
The resort decided to see what other alternatives were available. A VTL option was enticing because it had the potential to dramatically cut restore times, so, Foxwoods looked at products from EMC, Sepaton, and StorageTek, which is now part of Sun Microsystems>.
During a pilot, the Sepaton systems ran the best, about 20 percent faster than the other options, Grillo says. By the fall, the casino had installed Sepaton's S2100-ES2 VTL with about 60 TB of disk capacity. The installation went smoothly, and Foxwoods had the new system up and running within a couple of hours.
However, the purchase was significant, reaching the $250,000 mark. "The price was higher than buying a new physical library, but the added speed outweighed the extra cost," notes Grillo.
Since making the change, the resort has seen various performance improvements with its disk-based backup systems. The time needed to complete a system backup was reduced by one third, and application restore time was cut in half. The casino also reduced the number of physical tapes it was managing from 1,500 to only a few hundred, which has freed up technicians to work on other items.
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