ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

2007-11-01 16:30:57
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?
From: Nick Laflamme <nick.laflamme AT NIST DOT GOV>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:30:12 -0400
William Boyer wrote:
Why the Datafort device and not LTO4/TS1120 drives? Just curious, not 
critisizing your decision. You need to make sure you have a Datafort for your 
D/R site. I had a client looking in to this and Sungard said that they would 
have to purchase an 2nd Datafort to keep at Sungard for D/R. Sungard wouldn't 
let them bring it in for an exercise. That pushed the cost for them over the 
budget and now they're doing client-side encryption for those critical files.


I wasn't directly involved in the decision process that led to the
Dataforts, but there's been talk about using them with other devices and
with other servers than our TSM servers. I don't know what non-technical
issues might also have factored into the decision.

As for the DR implications; we've got Dataforts at two sites, and I'm
told we're also going to write Dataforts into our DR contract -- which
isn't with Sungard. I think that gives us two alternate plans for
recovering the off-site tapes when we need to. For the moment, though,
the critical requirement is to be able to say we have data adequately
encrypted stored off-site.

Bill Boyer


Nick