Phil, If your SAN is running based on IBM, DS4000 series, you may take a look at DS4100 SATA solution. I found that it has competitive price and perf is quite acceptable for tier 2 disk storage for Netware OS. Depending on what type of HSM solution for Netware, you may need to spend more time in designing and integrating with other pieces of SAN structure. If you can share your SAN design with Netware servers and TSM, we may be able to help more and you will need to test TSM client with HSM solution, of course with your tier2 disk, because sometimes HSM comes its own backup solution that you may not be able use TSM at all. Check if they are using SATA II drives. It has a lot of fixes with version II. Remember that NW does lots of small I/Os on SAN and could break SATA drive very easy if you don't monitor closely and rebuilding after the failure could be very painful, if you have >400G drives... Gus
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/05 6:53 AM >>> Hi Guys - I know this is a little off the TSM subject, so please accept my apologies for wasting anyone's' time. We are about to install a HSM system to manage our 1.4TB Netware File Systems\Servers and I'm a HSM novice. We are intending to use a 10 x 400Gb SATA second tier storage solution and are undecided whether to go with a DotHill SANNet or an Adaptec FS4500 SATA array. Being a mainly IBM shop I am unfamiliar we either of theses products and would be very grateful for any experience or knowledge of gotchas with either. Kind Regards Phil Jones United Biscuits e-mail: phil_jones at biscuits dot com ________________________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. They may contain material protected by legal professional or other privilege. If you receive it in error, please delete it from your system, make no copies of it, do not disclose its contents to any third party or use it for your own or any other person's benefit. Please advise the sender of its receipt as soon as possible. Although this email and its attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the company for any loss or damage arising from receipt or use thereof. Any opinions expressed that do not relate to the official business of the company are those of the author, not the United Biscuits group of companies. ________________________________________________________________________________________
