Re: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor/NetApp w/OST
What issues are you seeing with the Quantum in regards to restore? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mitch808 Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:51 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor/NetApp w/OST There is no OST functionality with NetApp. NetApp wants you to buy more storage, and snap everything, to their storage. There is no need for backup to them. As for Falconstor, I've yet to see any customer with it. And I see a lot of customers a week across many states. The customers that have Datadomain, love it. Almost as fanatical as NetApp users. DataDomain's new DD Bost software is intriguing, but why? were they suffering against other players, that they had to offload processing? Quantum has one of the best implementations of OST, with their direct to tape feature. But I'm not sure if their restore issues have been solved yet? Exagrid as well has some positive remarks. I'm pretty sure, that you'll pay more by a lot for DataDomain, but will it be worth it? +-- |This was sent by mnab...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor/NetApp w/OST
Is anyone using a FalconStor or NetApp solution with OST? If so, do you have an opinion as to how either one compares with Data Domain? Thanks! JP A little late to the party but .. currently we are running FalconStor with OST on AIX running NBU 6.5.4 right now and love it. We are running a single SIR (Single Image Repository) with a single VTL sitting in front of 4 drawers of SataBEASTs with another of the same configuration in the wings to be sent to our alternate data center for replication. We also use vault for offsite duplication right now (DR purposes) but once the replication is in place I believe we'll be getting rid of tape all together. For our Windows environments we are going to be employing NetApp boxes but as of right now everything is just going through our existing NBU env using the backing disk presented to NBU as LUNS or LSUs. I don't have any first hand experience with Data Domain so I don't have a solid comparison however. Regards, Lonny___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] FalconStor/NetApp w/OST
Almost totally ignoring your questions, I'll offer that while NetApp has a dedup capability, I'm unaware of an OST plugin. We have a nice pair of Quantum 6550s using NetBackup 6.5.5 and OST ... and are happy customers. After using NetBackup Vault to duplicate backups to tape for off-site, OST between the disk appliances is wonderful. The Quantum's replicate all blocks between themselves and NetBackup's Storage Life Cycle policy quickly and quietly verifies the duplicate on the remote 6550. We don't use the 6550 tape capability, nor do we use the VTL/FC capability. We had some getting-started problems, but it looks like the only thing that will persist is that the Quantum OST plug-in can't deal with it's appliances going away and reappearing on a new NFS share (our workaround - reboot the NBU servers). We had been using the NetBackup for Oracle DB agent software, but have created NFS shares on the Quantum to send RMAN backups directly to backup w/o NBU for at least some of these. A Quantum 6550 scheduled process does periodic snapshots to create point in time versions of the backup NFS space at the alternate 6550. Separate NFS mounts to separate DB only for security reasons ... we use just one big dedup pool for NBU these NFS mounts. CIFS available, but we do little Windows here. Hope this helps! Cheers, Wayne On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:09 AM, m b m3b...@hotmail.com wrote: Is anyone using a FalconStor or NetApp solution with OST? If so, do you have an opinion as to how either one compares with Data Domain? ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
