>> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:07:31 -0600, Kelly Lipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> VTLs solve problems that we in TSM land don't have. Using native > disk makes much more sense except in a couple of cases: SAN backup > and if you need compression. In almost all other cases using file > device class storage pools is better. > So since we don't have the problems designed to be fixed by VTLs > they often add more complexity and problems to a TSM site. I have an acknowledgedly superstitious shudder about the data de-duplication thing. This feels to me like a magic (single) basket into which The System inserts my eggs, all unawares. This is irrational to some extent, I recognize. But for the VTL, I don't know where the database is; it's _magic_. - Allen S. Rout
