Sanergy still exists (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/sanergy/), 
but I have no idea how much money we're talking about here, or how well it 
works.  Anyone?

If I had to guess, I'd say that the pricing of SANergy would make it more 
expensive than going the VTL route, especially if you bought a dedupe VTL.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:58 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LAN-free storage agent backing up other clients?

>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:37:02 +0100, Stef Coene <stef.coene AT DOCUM DOT ORG> 
>> said:

>> 4.   If no one uses the feature, why not?  It would seem like it help
>> TSM scale farther.

> This is backup direct to tape.  You can not use a disk based pool.
> So you need enough tape drives for all the client.  Or the data to
> backup is small enough so don't hold the tapes too long.


Or pay for SANergy... Or, does that still exist?  Advertise a
SAN-based FILE volume as a SAN target?

- Allen S. Rout





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