Phil,
If your SAN is running based on IBM, DS4000 series, you may take a look at
DS4100 SATA solution. I found that it has competitive price and perf is quite
acceptable for tier 2 disk storage for Netware OS. Depending on what type of
HSM solution for Netware, you may need to spend more time in designing and
integrating with other pieces of SAN structure. If you can share your SAN
design with Netware servers and TSM, we may be able to help more and you will
need to test TSM client with HSM solution, of course with your tier2 disk,
because sometimes HSM comes its own backup solution that you may not be able
use TSM at all. Check if they are using SATA II drives. It has a lot of fixes
with version II. Remember that NW does lots of small I/Os on SAN and could
break SATA drive very easy if you don't monitor closely and rebuilding after
the failure could be very painful, if you have >400G drives...
Gus
>>> Phil_Jones AT BISCUITS DOT COM 06/24/05 6:53 AM >>>
Hi Guys - I know this is a little off the TSM subject, so please accept my
apologies for wasting anyone's' time.
We are about to install a HSM system to manage our 1.4TB Netware File
Systems\Servers and I'm a HSM novice.
We are intending to use a 10 x 400Gb SATA second tier storage solution and
are undecided whether to go with a DotHill SANNet or an Adaptec FS4500 SATA
array.
Being a mainly IBM shop I am unfamiliar we either of theses products and
would be very grateful for any experience or knowledge of gotchas with
either.
Kind Regards
Phil Jones
United Biscuits
e-mail: phil_jones at biscuits dot com
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