Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-24 Thread W. Curtis Preston
Loon, EJ van - SPLXM said: >The Dutch guys also confirmed that compressed data is dedupable, but it >depends how compression is done. I agree with the last part, but it also depends on the file. If what you're talking about is multiple versions of the SAME compressed file over time, DD (and other

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Bullock
We have been in production with our DD for about 18 months now. We have about 20TB of native storage on the DD. We are currently using about 16TB of the native storage and have fit about 195TB of TSM data onto the disks, which comes out to a 12-to-1 ratio (or about a 91% reduc

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Kelly Lipp
Ben, How much data do you have in DD and what sort of ratios are you seeing? What about performance during restores? Thanks, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Man

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Bullock
We use a DD580 on our TSM servers. We use a device type of "FILE" and set it to a 50GB file size. Our TSM server is on AIX, so we use an NFS mount for the storage pools on the DD. It works well, we can get very good throughput over the 1GB NIC to the DD. If your environment is larger and you nee

Re: Data Domain - questions from a meeting with DD

2009-06-15 Thread Loon, EJ van - SPLXM
Hi Rick! Quite a coincident: I just spoke to DataDomain too! 1) The Dutch guys also confirmed that compressed data is dedupable, but it depends how compression is done. If it's file level compression, you can expect that a copy of that file is similar and thus dedupable. A compressed ntkernel.dl