ADSM-L

Re: ADSM HP-UX Client

1997-04-21 10:33:59
Subject: Re: ADSM HP-UX Client
From: "Robert C. Friske" <rfriske AT FORD DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:33:59 -0400
FYI...

Ford is a large ADSM user and we have started rolling out
Veritas on Sun and HP. So far they are running fine together.

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On Apr 21,  9:02am, Kenneth Yaw wrote:
> Subject: Re: ADSM HP-UX Client
>      Yes.
>
>      1.  As far as we ascertained, the server should work on Series 700's,
>      however, we never tested it as there seemed to be silence on support
>      (plus, like you, we had other resources).
>
>      2.  Veritas is not supported.  This is quite frustrating, since, as
>      you say, it is much preferred.
>
>      3.  We want ACLs backed up.  We can't, so we wait and manually handle
>      it.
>
>      Ken Yaw
>      Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
>      Canon U.S.A., Inc.
>
>
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> Subject: ADSM HP-UX Client
> Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at ~internet
> Date:    4/18/97 9:21 PM
>
>
> Our company is/was looking at purchasing ADSM for our (rather modest)
> backup requirements.  The company has 11 employees doing software
> development (growing to 20 shortly) using a combination of NT, HP-UX,
> Solaris and AIX.  HP-UX is the predominant platform (with NT growing
> rapidly).
>
> While I was very pleased to see that ADSM now supports all of the computing
> platforms we are interested in, several limitations in the HP-UX client and
> server have regrettably caused us to remove ADSM from the running.  Before
> purchasing a competing product I want to verify that the information I was
> given by the pre-sales group is correct.
>
> 1.  The HP-UX server only supports Model 800 servers and cannot be run on
> Model 700 workstations.  The try-and-buy server works perfectly on a 700,
> and the primary difference between 700s and 800s is in the sheet metal, so
> I assume (and ADSM presales support confirms) that this is purely a testing
> issue (i.e., the ADSM server wasn't tested on model 700s).  We could work
> around this as we have other hardware on site that could run the server.
>
> 2.  The HP-UX client, according to the announcement letter, does not
> support the VXFS (Veritas) file system.  This is odd, since starting on
> HP-UX 10.x (where VXFS made its first appearance on HP-UX) it by far is the
> preferred filesystem.  To compare it to IBM products, VXFS is extremely
> similar to AIX's JFS while the "older" HP filesystem is similar to the
> filesystem on AIX Version 2.
>
> I checked with ADSM presales tech support to verify that this was a hard
> restriction in the product and was told that indeed it was.  VXFS supports
> Access Control Lists (ACLs) which the old fs does not; if the only
> limitation of the ADSM client is that ACLs aren't saved I could certainly
> live with that.  But presales support indicates that it's not supported,
> period; they suggested that I call back in 4Q1997. (!)
>
> SO, before I abandon the idea of using ADSM, if someone would like to
> clarify these issues I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Sam Drake
> DataXel Corporation
>-- End of excerpt from Kenneth Yaw
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