We are using Whitewater.. Setup is very easy... Deduplication is about 3-5x
depending on type of data..
You can uses any cloud storage including Amazon Glacier... We are using S3
since the price drop.. all in all good product and they have partnered with IBM
so makes things a little easier
James Lepre
Infrastructure Support Specialist
Solix, Inc. | 30 Lanidex Plaza West | Parsippany, NJ 07054
T: 973.581.5362 | F: 973.599.6544
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lee, Gary
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 4:09 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Sending TSM backups to the cloud
We just finished a trial of the panzura box using amazon storage.
Setup was quite easy. Configured the box with a ssl cert, pointed it to our
amazon account, and configured its nfs settings.
Then mounted it to our tsm server and set up a sequencial pool to point to that
mount point.
We did just a copy stg to the cloud storage pool.
Only got about 1.3 to 1 dedup ratio using the quicksilver's native
deduplication.
However, worked well, and was absolutely no trouble.
However, be ready for long wait times on restore if the data is not cached in
the quicksilver's local disk space.
We killed our box completely to simulate a disaster with the box. Then,
reconfigured the panzura and did a volume restore. Much much much slower than
local tape.
Not a bandwidth problem as we have multiple gigbits to our providers.
Feel free to email or call if you have further questions.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 4:01 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Sending TSM backups to the cloud
My boss is doing some "pie in the sky" and wondered about using cloud storage
like Amazon for extra, non-tape based offsite active-data copies.
Anybody doing or thinking of doing this?
My quick research shows the need for an appliance to interface between the TSM
storage and the cloud/Amazon. Two I found were "Panzura Global Clouse Storage
System" and "Riverbed Whitewater".
I have never having dealt with activedata storage pools, so please correct me
if I am wrong. From what I gather, I would setup a sequential pool and
either/or perform "copy activedata" from the primary pool and/or update the
primary storage pool to automagically replicate inbound traffic to the
activedata pool. Also requires changing the policy domains to identify what
goes in the activedata pool? Is this a one-to-one or many-to-one?
Also, since we are using storage based licensing, is the activedata figured
into the total occupancy or is it ignored since it really is just a copy of
what is in the primary storage pools and things like copypools aren't counted?
Your thoughts?
--
*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
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