My boss is doing some "pie in the sky" and wondered about using cloud storage like Amazon for extra, non-tape based offsite active-data copies.
Anybody doing or thinking of doing this? My quick research shows the need for an appliance to interface between the TSM storage and the cloud/Amazon. Two I found were "Panzura Global Clouse Storage System" and "Riverbed Whitewater". I have never having dealt with activedata storage pools, so please correct me if I am wrong. From what I gather, I would setup a sequential pool and either/or perform "copy activedata" from the primary pool and/or update the primary storage pool to automagically replicate inbound traffic to the activedata pool. Also requires changing the policy domains to identify what goes in the activedata pool? Is this a one-to-one or many-to-one? Also, since we are using storage based licensing, is the activedata figured into the total occupancy or is it ignored since it really is just a copy of what is in the primary storage pools and things like copypools aren't counted? Your thoughts? -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
