Re: [ADSM-L] CDL4200 Active Engine Failover integration with TSM on AIX5.3
2007-06-11 09:42:49
>> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:07:31 -0600, Kelly Lipp <lipp AT STORSERVER DOT COM>
>> said:
> VTLs solve problems that we in TSM land don't have. Using native
> disk makes much more sense except in a couple of cases: SAN backup
> and if you need compression. In almost all other cases using file
> device class storage pools is better.
> So since we don't have the problems designed to be fixed by VTLs
> they often add more complexity and problems to a TSM site.
I have an acknowledgedly superstitious shudder about the data
de-duplication thing. This feels to me like a magic (single) basket
into which The System inserts my eggs, all unawares.
This is irrational to some extent, I recognize. But for the VTL, I
don't know where the database is; it's _magic_.
- Allen S. Rout
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