Hi Geoff,

MTI seems to provide good storage stuff but NOT for open SAN !
Vivant products contain both the storage parts AND the SAN parts
(hub, switch)

This is simple to plug to servers, but definitively NO EVOLUTIVE and
NO SCALABLE. When all your connections (16 or 32) are used, you
need to buy another VIVANT and another HBA if you want to add more
disk space to one server.

MTI offers an integrated-backup solution with VIVANT, but it is
(or at least, was few months ago) only available with Legato and
NetBackup and only for a VERY few number of SMALL libraries.

It really depends on what you want to to with your VIVANT ?

Rv


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Envoyé : mardi 8 mai 2001 19:43
> À : ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Objet : SAN/TSM DB and Logs
> 
> 
> A question for all those using a SAN environment. We just had 
> a meeting with
> some people from a company called MTI. Their solution is to provide a
> complete end to end, HBA to DISK, environment. According to 
> them there is no
> pointing of fingers since it all belongs to them. This sounds 
> interesting,
> and from their list of clients I'm guessing some of you out 
> there could be
> using the VIVANT line of storage.
> 
> If any of you are could you please email me and tell me of 
> any stories you
> may have, horror or otherwise.
> 
> I'd also like to know from a SAN point of view if it's better 
> to keep TSM
> database and logs on a local SSA disk or out on the SAN.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (888) 997-9614
>