Re: SV: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-23 Thread Michael Green
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Christian Svensson christian.svens...@cristie.se wrote: Hi Eric, With Quantum DXi (VTL) can you do the same thing. The DXi has both a VTL part and a NAS Disk part and both have De-Dup working. The NAS part can you connect as local disk via iSCSI. iSCSI is not

Re: SV: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-23 Thread Xav Paice
- Michael Green mishagr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Christian Svensson christian.svens...@cristie.se wrote: Hi Eric, With Quantum DXi (VTL) can you do the same thing. The DXi has both a VTL part and a NAS Disk part and both have De-Dup working. The NAS part

Re: SV: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-22 Thread Richard Rhodes
The only reason why I should sale a customer a VTL is if they wanna run a LANFree backup to disk. It seems that the value-add of a VTL over FILE devices on plain DISK is Lanfree, compression and de-dup. Given the much greater cost of a VTL over plain disk, we keep looking for how to achieve

Re: SV: the purpose of file device class

2009-09-22 Thread Wanda Prather
Question: Does TSM support multi-reader function of FILE devices with a VTL? In other words, can you get the same tape vol mounted multiple times - ONCE for WRITING and multiple for READONLY? Or, just multiple READONLY mounts? This would be great at our DR site for DR restores. No. A