> Hello,
> I'm looking into SANergy as a possible configuration for doing LAN Free 
> backups to a FILE device class instead of having to a physical tape drive.
> I notice that SANergy doesn't appear to be too popular of a product.. I guess 
> so much so that IBM removed the SANergy section out of the 5.1 Technical 
> Guide Redbook where it was in the 4.1 Technical
> Guide Redbook..
>
> I don't understand why this technology didn't take off better.  The ability 
> to do LAN Free backups to disk is a great feature and cost savings.
>
> The advantages I see for SANergy are:
>
> 1. Many more concurrent LAN Free backups, not restricted by number of 
> physical tape drives.
> 2. Ability to specify the size of the FILE device type volume being created 
> in the FILE device class SANergy storage pool.
> 3. Cost - I can migrate my FILE SANergy pool to much fewer real physical tape 
> drives in a sequential access storage pool.
> 4. Sharing a clients HBA with Disk and Tape is no longer an issue since the 
> FILE device class will use disk type block sizes in its writes (Not 256K 
> block sizes like 359X).
> 5. Tape mount times are instantaneous for backups.
>
> In the 4.1 Technical Guide there are only 5 supported configurations.  The 
> TSM server looks like it has to be a Win2K or Solaris server and supported 
> clients look to be only AIX or Win2K.. Is this
> accurate today?  Is Solaris a supported client?  Anybody know where there is 
> an updated TSM/SANergy support matrix/
>
> I would be very interested on your thoughts and opinions as well as any 
> technical documentation you can point me to.
>
> Thanks,
> Denis

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