Thanks for the info. Can you give me some idea of cost? Is it a one-time
purchase?
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Lepre, James <james.lepre AT solixinc DOT com>
wrote:
> 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
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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*
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