Re: Buying disk: (was: TSM Dedup stgpool target)

2013-12-10 Thread Stefan Folkerts
and > SPECIFY the case you will use for your throughput test.) > > > My recommendations: > > * My personal favorite for mid-range disk is the V7000, with the > XIV-Like DDP firmware. There is a low-end inexpensive version and > higher-end version. The cool thing is

Buying disk: (was: TSM Dedup stgpool target)

2013-12-09 Thread Prather, Wanda
s that you can improve performance as you grow by adding spindles. * Test. If you don't have dedup now, set up a small pool and play with it, so you get a feel for the lifecycle. Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Bill, My concern was that if the copy storage pool was tape, then with small primary stgpool volumes there might be a lot more tape mounts required, especially if the stgpools are collocated. Since your output pools are on disk, then the higher mount/unmount activity wouldn't be an issue. ..P

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Colwell, William F.
3 3:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target Bill, Are you virtual volumes purely on tape on the target server, or are they fronted by some sort of disk storage pool? I am trying to understand whether a small volume size for the ingest dedup file pool will cause a lot of tape

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Zarnowski
are on virtual volumes. I have never seen any issues >related to the primary pool volume size. > >- bill > >-Original Message- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul >Zarnowski >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 9:35 AM >To: AD

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Colwell, William F.
[mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 9:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target One other question, if you don't mind Bill: Do you have Copy Storage Pools? If so, are they on tape or file? If tape, is the small v

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Zarnowski
gt;>There is also a tape library. Really big files are excluded from dedup via >>the stgpool MAXSIZE parameter and >>land on a separate pool on the Nexsan storage which then migrates to tape. >> >>Hope this helps, >> >>Bill Colwell >>Draper Lab >> &g

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-15 Thread Colwell, William F.
ilto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sergio O. Fuentes Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 12:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target Bill, Thanks for info. Just curious, are you utilizing source-side dedupe or relying on the TSM identify to identify all your dupli

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-15 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Bill, Thanks for info. Just curious, are you utilizing source-side dedupe or relying on the TSM identify to identify all your duplicates (post-process)? How does the maxsize parameter interact with source-side dedup? I'll have to look that up. Eventually you have to reclaim your copy pools and

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-14 Thread Colwell, William F.
hierarchies so mapping out pre-allocation would be a nightmare. thanks, - bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Dedup stgpool

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-14 Thread Paul Zarnowski
b > >-Original Message- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of >Sergio O. Fuentes >Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:32 AM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: TSM Dedup stgpool target > >In an earlier thread, I polled this group

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-14 Thread Colwell, William F.
Behalf Of Sergio O. Fuentes Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Dedup stgpool target In an earlier thread, I polled this group on whether people recommend going with an array-based dedup solution or doing a TSM dedup solution. Well, the answers came

TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-13 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
In an earlier thread, I polled this group on whether people recommend going with an array-based dedup solution or doing a TSM dedup solution. Well, the answers came back mixed, obviously with an 'It depends'-type clause. So, moving on… assuming that I'm using TSM dedup, what sort of target arr