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Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group

2000-12-12 10:53:18
Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
From: "Shawn D. King" <Shawn_King AT IDG DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:56:16 -0500
I worked with Patty Dean, this is her email


pdean AT nb DOT net



She is a Sales Rep for The Kernal Group, She is who we worked with, she came out
      with a Tech Specialist and they worked with us for the day. Let me know if
      you need any other information I would be happy to assist you


Regards
 Shawn D. King

Data Protection Manager
 International Data Group
 5 Speen Street
 Framingham, MA 01701

(508) 935-4391




"Kovacs, Mark" <Mark.Kovacs AT PHARMA DOT COM> on 12/12/2000 09:08:53 AM

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Shawn,

        He have both UNIX and NT servers running in our shop.  We have both
NT and HP-UX TSM servers, so it should not be a problem.  I would like to
get a contact that can give us some good technical insight into the product
and how well it works.

        I was even wondering if you can use it to quickly create a recovery
partition, load a basic OS and TSM clients, and then run a normal full TSM
recovery.

thanks,
mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn D. King [SMTP:Shawn_King AT IDG DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:49 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
>
> Hi Mark
>
> We had The Kernel Group come out to our company about a month ago and they
> were
> going to do a demonstration of the product, Our shop is mostly NT, but we
> also
> are running Novell, and Digital Open VMS and the Kernel Group Software
> runs on a
> Unix Platform, If you have a Unix environment the product may work well,
> but In
> our environment, there were too many variables that had to be met (ie:the
> client
> being restored, the TSM Server, and the BMR Server all needed to be on the
> same
> Network) Our environment had 4 virtual Networks, and it took us most of
> the day
> the set up the environment for the demo, and in the end, the product did
> not
> restore the system, I ended up working that night restoring the machine
> with the
> TSM product by itself.
>
> As I mentioned, I am a NT shop, and the product is not ready for NT as of
> yet,
> they kept telling me that day that they were still developing the product
> to
> work with NT, and by early next year it should perform better with NT, In
> theory
> the product seems like a god send, you are suppose to be able to just boot
> up to
> the BMR Server and you are suppose to be able to just walk away while your
> restore goes unattended. I am still interested in the product, but I think
> I am
> going to wait until next year to give the developers of BMR some time to
> work
> out the kinks that are still in the system.
>
> If you are interested a demo of the product I can give you a contact name,
> I
> know that they will be more then willing to come out to your site and do a
> demo
> of the product for you.
>
> Regards
> Shawn D. King
>
> Data Protection Manager
> International Data Group
> 5 Speen Street
> Framingham, MA 01701
>
> (508) 935-4391
>
>
>
>
> "Kovacs, Mark" <Mark.Kovacs AT PHARMA DOT COM> on 12/12/2000 07:46:17 AM
>
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> Subject:  Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
>
>
>
> TSMers,
>
>         Does anyone have experience with the Bare Metal Restore product
> from
> the Kernel Group ?  I've seen their information at
> http://www.tkg.com/bmr/
> and was wondering if anyone else has used it.  Any feedback would be
> greatly
> appreciated !
>
> Thanks,
> mark