We just finished a trial of the panzura box using amazon storage. Setup was quite easy. Configured the box with a ssl cert, pointed it to our amazon account, and configured its nfs settings. Then mounted it to our tsm server and set up a sequencial pool to point to that mount point.
We did just a copy stg to the cloud storage pool. Only got about 1.3 to 1 dedup ratio using the quicksilver's native deduplication. However, worked well, and was absolutely no trouble. However, be ready for long wait times on restore if the data is not cached in the quicksilver's local disk space. We killed our box completely to simulate a disaster with the box. Then, reconfigured the panzura and did a volume restore. Much much much slower than local tape. Not a bandwidth problem as we have multiple gigbits to our providers. Feel free to email or call if you have further questions. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 4:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Sending TSM backups to the cloud 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
