One thing I've mentioned to our Isilon sales rep several times is how
sweet it would be if we could run a real BA client on the cluster. Given
that OneFS on the backend is FreeBSD-based, it seems like this would at
least be doable for IBM. Now that EMC owns Isilon, though, I have small
hope of this ever happening.

-- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
-- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
-- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
-- University of Washington School of Medicine

On 02/ 2/12 02:52 PM, Grant Street wrote:

We tested the backup accelerators a few years ago (about 2 ) and they
didn't fit our requirements. This was before they offered the Metadata
on SSD.

At that time they only supported a few tape drives for each accelerator
and the bottle neck was getting the data out of the cluster.

Because we don't backup everything in the isilon cluster and we had lots
of user facing Accelerator nodes we got better performance by running
multiple parallel TSM backup streams from one or two clients.

Again this is all based on the older isilon nodes and your milage may vary.

Grant

On 03/02/12 08:31, Shawn Drew wrote:

It is just NDMP, but you need to get the "backup accelerator" to do that.
(It adds FC ports to the isilon and enables NDMP)

Here is the isilon guide for this.
http://www.isilon.com/library/configuration-guide-ndmp-ibm-tivoli-storage-manager-isilon



I've just read about it, but haven't done it myself. I also read about
the IBM SONAS and that looks much more appealing from a TSM perspective.
(Built-in TSM client, uses its super-grid thing for the incremental scan,
hsm-like functionality)


Regards,
Shawn
________________________________________________
Shawn Drew





Internet
r.post AT PLCS DOT NL

Sent by: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
02/02/2012 04:18 PM
Please respond to
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU


To
ADSM-L
cc

Subject
Re: [ADSM-L] Isilon backup






for what it's worth, NDMP works with TSM, but that's it. NDMP is not the
most advanced backup solution and the TSM implementation is not the most
feature rich. I'd look into other solutions first before reverting to
NDMP.


On 2 feb. 2012, at 22:12, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT wrote:

Anyone backup an Isilon array? Using 3592 tape drives? The sales guys

say it is just NDMP.

I am looking for just basic information (good, bad, Oh Smurf!). One may

be in our future.

Andy Huebner


This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be

legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized
representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using,
copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its
attachments.
If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender
immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and
any
attachments.

Thank you.

--
Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.post AT plcs DOT nl
+31 6 248 21 622



This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for
the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error,
please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord
with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or
partial,
is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the
integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall
(will)
not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that
certain
functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas
RCC, Inc.