I just wanted to let you guys know, that I in no way think that the BMR software
or TKG are a bad idea, we looked at the product about a month ago, and I did
mention that when they were here they did mention that they were still working
on some things, It is the theory of our shop to not go live with a new product
as soon as it is release, which is why I stated that we were going to
reinvestigate the product next year, I think that TKG is offering a great
product and our issues were when they were still releasing the product for NT, I
am aware that they were/are working on many changes.
That is why I was offering the contact information of the person we worked with,
there response to us, and demonstration of the product were of outstanding
Customer Service, I just dont want anyone to think that we were putting down
the company or there product (or that I advocated not going with the product), I
am still interested in BMR, But I have also been informed by my superiors that
we will be waiting until next summer after the product has been in circulation
for a little.
Regards
Shawn D. King
Data Protection Manager
International Data Group
5 Speen Street
Framingham, MA 01701
(508) 935-4391
Alex Paschal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/12/2000 04:32:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
We're currently using BMR under AIX. Our environment is complicated by the
fact that we use DCE/DFS. BMR is slick. I'm currently trying to get our NT
group to take a look at it also.
I don't know what issues Shawn ran into, but when we were evaluating and
testing BMR, we found several things we wanted changed/fixed and some issues
that cropped up solely in DFS file systems. We informed The Kernel Group
about them and the changes we requested were included in the next release in
a matter of weeks. The response/turnaround time was VERY nice. We also had
James Wang, the Vice President of Services for TKG, on site during our
trials, which undoubtedly helped with the priority of our requests. <Grin>
All in all, I was impressed with the product and with the organization
itself.
Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn D. King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
I worked with Patty Dean, this is her email
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
She is a Sales Rep for The Kernal Group, She is who we worked with, she came
out
with a Tech Specialist and they worked with us for the day. Let me
know if
you need any other information I would be happy to assist you
Regards
Shawn D. King
Data Protection Manager
International Data Group
5 Speen Street
Framingham, MA 01701
(508) 935-4391
"Kovacs, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/12/2000 09:08:53 AM
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Shawn,
He have both UNIX and NT servers running in our shop. We have both
NT and HP-UX TSM servers, so it should not be a problem. I would like to
get a contact that can give us some good technical insight into the product
and how well it works.
I was even wondering if you can use it to quickly create a recovery
partition, load a basic OS and TSM clients, and then run a normal full TSM
recovery.
thanks,
mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn D. King [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
>
> Hi Mark
>
> We had The Kernel Group come out to our company about a month ago and they
> were
> going to do a demonstration of the product, Our shop is mostly NT, but we
> also
> are running Novell, and Digital Open VMS and the Kernel Group Software
> runs on a
> Unix Platform, If you have a Unix environment the product may work well,
> but In
> our environment, there were too many variables that had to be met (ie:the
> client
> being restored, the TSM Server, and the BMR Server all needed to be on the
> same
> Network) Our environment had 4 virtual Networks, and it took us most of
> the day
> the set up the environment for the demo, and in the end, the product did
> not
> restore the system, I ended up working that night restoring the machine
> with the
> TSM product by itself.
>
> As I mentioned, I am a NT shop, and the product is not ready for NT as of
> yet,
> they kept telling me that day that they were still developing the product
> to
> work with NT, and by early next year it should perform better with NT, In
> theory
> the product seems like a god send, you are suppose to be able to just boot
> up to
> the BMR Server and you are suppose to be able to just walk away while your
> restore goes unattended. I am still interested in the product, but I think
> I am
> going to wait until next year to give the developers of BMR some time to
> work
> out the kinks that are still in the system.
>
> If you are interested a demo of the product I can give you a contact name,
> I
> know that they will be more then willing to come out to your site and do a
> demo
> of the product for you.
>
> Regards
> Shawn D. King
>
> Data Protection Manager
> International Data Group
> 5 Speen Street
> Framingham, MA 01701
>
> (508) 935-4391
>
>
>
>
> "Kovacs, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/12/2000 07:46:17 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Shawn King/IDGCORP/IDG)
> Subject: Bare Metal Restore Product fro the Kernel Group
>
>
>
> TSMers,
>
> Does anyone have experience with the Bare Metal Restore product
> from
> the Kernel Group ? I've seen their information at
> http://www.tkg.com/bmr/
> and was wondering if anyone else has used it. Any feedback would be
> greatly
> appreciated !
>
> Thanks,
> mark
