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Re: Need Information on Bare Metal Restore Vendor

2000-05-15 23:48:07
Subject: Re: Need Information on Bare Metal Restore Vendor
From: "France, Don (Pace)" <don.france-eds AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:48:07 -0400
I heard that the completed integration of "Replica" will happen sometime
this year;  in my notes, it looks like 2H00, v4.1, and not an official
commitment.

It deviates from the current TDP/Workgroups by allowing the local tape to be
replaced by a backup image stored on the TSM server... but, you'll still
need to boot something locally to gain access to the BMR image on the
network.  (We currently use a generic single-floppy+CD solution that works
similar to the old RedBook scenario -- not the OS2 thing.)

Don France

Technical Architect, P.A.C.E.
San Jose, CA
mailto:dfrance AT pacbell DOT net
PACE - http://www.pacepros.com
Bus-Ph:   (408) 257-3037




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Jennings [mailto:dan.jennings AT HOME DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 2:35 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Need Information on Bare Metal Restore Vendor
>
>
> I spoke to a rep from The Kernel Group last week about their
> bare metal restore product.  The *IX versions for AIX, Solaris
> and HP/UX are available, and they plan to beta the NT BMR
> product in August or September. We weren't really so much
> interested in the *IX stuff, as we use AIX and are very
> dilligent about keeping app data out of the rootvg to keep
> the mksysb sizes manageable, and use ADSM to backup the
> non-OS data.
>
> From what I understood during our conversation, they use a
> boot server to respond to BOOTP requests from systems
> requiring a BMR activity.  The boot server delivers a
> image that gets the system on the air, partitions/formats
> the drive(s) and starts an ADSM client restore.  The rep
> was not sure if the NT recovery would be able to use the
> boot server over the network.  NT clients may have to use
> boot floppies (Yech!) to get on the air to start the
> restore.
>
> TGK will be at Tivoli World, according to this sales
> guy, so if any of you plan to go, you can hook up with
> them for better info/timelines.
>
> And no, I don't work for TKG, I just desperately need a
> network based NT bare metal recovery solution, snd these
> guys were actually able to give me a date for beta code.
> Anybody get a committment from Tivoli for a similar
> functionality?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
>
> Gary Ison wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >         Has anyone had any experience using the Bare Metal
> Restore product
> > from The Kernel Group?  It looks like a two piece
> application that uses TSM
> > as its repository for AIX and NT systems.  Thanks for any info.
> >
> >         Gary L. Ison
> >         Governor's Office for Technology
> >         101 Cold Harbor Drive
> >         Frankfort, Ky.   40601
> >         Phone:  (502) 564-8724
> >             Fax:  (502) 564-6856
> > E-mail: Gary.Ison AT mail.state.ky DOT us
> <mailto:Gary.Ison AT mail.state.ky DOT us>
>
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