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Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs Avamar

2009-06-23 12:10:26
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs Avamar
From: Nicholas Rodolfich <NRodolfich AT CMAONTHEWEB DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:07:43 -0500
What does Avemar offer for DR purposes? I don't know any customers that are
ready to
totally rely on electrically powered disk drives as a DR solution.
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The recent CommVault topic inspired this one.   Our EMC reps are doing a
good marketing job for Avemar.  While I'm not necessarily looking for ammo
to shoot them down, I am having trouble finding the negatives of Avamar
versusTSM.

The main marketing claims that interested me:
- Dedupe at the client.  They also claim that since they can do it at the
client, the ratio they can achieve is much higher than Falconstor or
DataDomain backend deduplication.
- They have some kind of directory tree hash marking.  The claim for this
is that if you have directories with millions of files, it will have
hashes for each directory level.  If one file changes, it can detect which
directory has changed through these hashes and will prevent complete file
system scanning for every backup. Sounds like it's an alternative for the
TSM journaling feature.
- They have some kind of Vmware appliance generation thing which they use
to create long term archives assuming they won't fit on the million:1
deduped storage!

As far as the negatives go, number one seems to be no analog to the
independant adsm-l community.  Which also seems to prevent finding more
negatives.  Also, the pre-sales engineer is a former TSM guy, which was a
craft EMC move!

Anyway, does anyone know any other negatives for Avamar vs TSM?  I'd like
to be able to ask more intelligent questions.



Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn Drew


Regards,

Nicholas

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