* Dima ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020515 15:46]: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, John Orthoefer wrote: > > Since EMC is still a mainframe disk company, the Syms can do this sort > > of thing. I've never used it, but with all the support that EMC > > offers, you should be able to cut a deal to get setup working with your > > rep. > > BCV (and SRDF) is intended for real-time data protection, so that you will > be able to recover your data in any case. It is intended to work in real > time and if you have a once-a-day sync requirement, it is an overkill. > > There are few things, which worth checking:
<snip> > 2. EMC Foundation Suit (if you have one) is actually a relabeled Veritas > and you can do snapshots/mirrors, etc. on fly. The only difference between > EFS and Veritas are a few "rules", which improve data throughput, like > increase of I/O size from 64 K to 128 K, because Symm likes it more. For using the BCVs, you will need Veritas (if you're on Sun) -- DiskSuite doesn't have the horsepower needed to do replication and importing of volumes correctly. We're in the process of upgrading to Veritas from DiskSuite now. -- Mike Steeves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ceci n'est pas une .signature. --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
