Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using avamar

I asked about that last summer (or maybe autumn), but the general feedback I got then was that you should try an eval model and then put heavy load on it (stress test it) to see how well it handles things. I didn't try it out, but I got the impression that it didn't scale well and didn't handle being loaded down.

At the time, we were looking at the Quantum DXi, the DataDomain and Avamar. Our budget got axed, and while dedup pays for itself, it was (and still is) a hard sell to our managers.

If you're an EMC shop, maybe you could leverage that customer relationship to get an evaluation model??

~ Robin

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using avamar

We’re a netbackup shop running NBU 6.5.2a. We currently have some data domain appliances that we backup roughly

25% of our nightly backups to. We’re looking to go tapeless at some point in time and were considering getting larger

Data domain appliances to accomplish this. We’re also a EMC shop. Our EMC BURA guys have been pushing their Avamar

Solution to us. I must admit it sounds promising, but I’m a little skeptical at this solution.

Has anyone had any experiences, either good or bad with Avamar?

Don Klebba
Quicken Loans
Storage Management Team
DonKlebba AT quickenloans DOT com
phone: (734)805-7791

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