Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding a DataDomain VTL need advice

Hi

We just finished adding DataDomain to our environment, and did not use VTL. We use CIFS and NFS and
evertything is working fine.

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Carl Stehman
Distributed Services
Pepcoholdings, Inc.
701 Ninth St NW
Washington DC 20068
202-331-6619
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John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu>
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Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] Adding a DataDomain VTL need advice

Jeff Lightner wrote: > Make sure you understand that fibre for the Data Domain is an add on so > costs extra. In our planning we were going to do fibre but didn’t order > the add on so ended up having to do GigE with NFS mounts instead. To > get throughput we wanted we had to work on doing network aggregation. > > Having said all that the Data Domains work pretty much as advertised and > the high compression/deduplication numbers are a reality. > We just did the same thing, end up tagging a DD690 onto a EMC storage bid and got so focused on the storage bid that we overlooked the fact that the DD690 as spec'd to us didn't include the FC/VTL option. Although honestly I'm not sure that the VTL functionality would really be a plus. With the CIFS/NFS configuration, it's simple matter to setup a disk storage or staging unit to the DD690. No extra NB licenses costs involved either. Just wish we had the FC bandwidth available to us. In the couple weeks we've been using it, we've been seeing pretty phenomenal compression and de-dup rates. John -- John Meyers Lead Systems Programmer Wright State University Dayton, Ohio. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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