The often-mentioned HSM for Windows is Legato DiskXtender. But I think your PHB is missing the big picture, which is that your company needs a data strategy in general. A file system approach to a much larger issue is really missing the, um, point. Information technology and business magazines are full of articles about companies struggling with data growth, and offer many examples of how they have found solutions. The overly general "Storage Manager" portion of the TSM product name is unfortunate in today's data storage milieu in that it gives managers the false impression that the product is far more encompassing than it is intended to be, leading them to ask TSM administrators to apply the costly product to solve issues it cannot. Few companies have data architects, though most desperately need them. I would encourage your company to step back and take in the larger view, and work toward an overall approach to the storage, management, and use of its valuable, growing data.
Richard Sims
On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Egon Blouder wrote:
Hi,
due to our huge volume of data/files to backup (and restore) my PHB is looking for a "new" storage architecture. He wants to offload or archive files off Windows file servers which are rarely accessed. Those files should be stored on cheap storage media like SATA drivers and when files aren't used for about half a year a migration to tapes should be done (Is that HSM?). Always our users should access their files without a differnet tool than just run windows explorer/word/excel and open that file off our windows servers. The storage tool should care about where the location of the file is and retrieve it asap. If it's on tape delay must be accepted.
I don't know whether that the mailing list that can point me into a "new" direction but I thought that TSM client offers such a feature. Unfortunately I cannot find how to setup it.
Which do people cut down the increase of data/files which must be kept online on our Windows file servers?
