The media server has to rehydrate the data to get it to tape, so really you should get as good or better performance going to tape than you do from a client. I do not believe you can attach a library directly to a PureDisk server since it is a strip...
We have been running media servers on AIX LPAR's for almost 4 years. The only issues we ever ran into was related to resources as the environment increased in utilization, so over provission memory/cpu by at least 2x from the start..
I am seeing the same thing if I have the server connected to the SAN. Disconnect from SAN and the process will complete. We then run into the issue of seeing the SAN disk properly after the server is up and reconnected to the SAN. Storage Foundation...
I believe that Flashbackup does not allow Incremental backups. It is taking a snapshot of the targetted drive/system and backing up using that snapshot. We use this on servers that have millions of small files because NetBackup takes too long to par...
Are you using the Clustering/HA features? In PDOS 6.5, the Storage Foundation software does not support bonding. We have 4 nics available but could not use them for a bond. We have a 6 node HA farm with 1 SPA, 4 CR's and a hot spare, fronting 64TB...