On July 23, 2003 at 15:10, Neild, Jim wrote:
> We have an EMC Celerra that we want to performance test and in the past,
> on other clients, we have used BIGASM. We are not having any luck
> getting it to work on the Celerra, it backs it up as just a plain old
> file. Where does the "magic" of BIGASM occur? At the client level (the
> Celerra has no NSR client software installed)?
>
> Any input on this? Is it possible to BIGASM an NDMP client?
Hi there!
I don't believe this is possible. bigasm uses NetWorkers
file backup protocol to store a virtual file, made up of
sequential numbers stored as ASCII, to the server. Since
the data comes directly from memory, the performance of the
filesystem is eliminated as a performance variable. Also,
using a sequential count as the file data allows the file
to be verified during restore testing.
Because it uses the file protocol directly, I do not believe
it will work in an NDMP environment.
Byron
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