Hoping someone can help clarify what I need.
At present I have a Sun Ultra 2 with two ultrawide scsi cards and 2-12 drive multipacks (one multipack to one card, the other multipack to the other card), 2 Sun Ultra 10's, and a Sun E4500 with a differential scsi card connected to a half filled D1000.
I recently found a great deal on a Sun C2 Autoloader LTO2, however after reading on the internet and consulting Anysystem.com, I don't think I have the correct scsi card to attach the C2 to anything I have, nor am I clear if I can find the correct card. Presently the E4500 is my production server, the Ultra 2 is development and the Ultra 10's are just around, so I am easy going regarding which machine I connect the C2 up to.
I found somewhere on the internet that said an E250 would work (which I am familiar with and is pretty inexpensive). I know the U2 and the E4500 are sbus and the U10's are pci. What I am looking for is:
Is there a SCSI LVD card available for any of the machines I have that is compatible with the C2 (Sun or otherwise)?
or
What is the cheapest machine I can get and the cheapest scsi card that will work (that is lvd) that I can connect to the C2 and I will set that to be a backup server, just backing up the other machines?
My background is in Systems administration and database administration. I am comfortable with the hardware, but I spend most of my time supporting software and I delve into hardware when needed. I can understand a hardware solution, my difficulty comes in optimizing it, I am just not familiar enough with the options.
I appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Paul