We are beginning to investigate the possibility of having a DLm and Data
Domain tapeless solution in our shop.  We are just looking

 

 

If anyone in a medium to large shop is using this, and you would like to
share your observations with me, that would be great.  We have about 1PB of
tape storage (mostly HSM ML2 data) between my two data centers.  And I would
like that data to be replicated to both devices.  I will also have long tern
retention needs for some  of my data.  I need to have my primary tape data
in the secondary data center for DR.  It would be nice to have my critical
development data sent to the primary site just in-case the DR site is the
one that is down.  Mostly my Source Management files.

 

EMC is suggestion an DLm8000 family and Data Domain for dedup of the data
for the mainframe.

 

Some questions I might be interested in

 

How is the performance when the data has to be rehydrated?

Is there any significant impact on distances between DD + DLm for DR usage?
What size transmission pipe will make it happy?  Our Primary and secondary
sites are about 800 miles apart.

 

Are there any concerns or issues that might be good to know up front?  Any
lessons learned.

 

 

Thanks for any input.

 

You can respond to my private email :  starsoul at mindspring dot com

 

 

Lizette


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