Re: Vtl questions

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Zarnowski
TSM 6.2 clients can do deduplication, but only if the target storage pool is FILE. So if you really want to do client-side (aka source-mode) deduplication, you should consider FILE instead of VTL. VTL will only do server-side (target-mode) deduplication. If you do deduplication in TSM, it wil

Re: Vtl questions

2010-06-15 Thread Remco Post
On 15 jun 2010, at 22:30, Lee, Gary D. wrote: > Our installation is tsm v5.5.4 under suse linux sles 9 running as a guest > under vm 5.3. > > We are out of disk on our ds8100, and, rather than license more disk, I am > considering a vtl and illiminate our onsite 3494. > So, I am looking for a p

Vtl questions

2010-06-15 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Our installation is tsm v5.5.4 under suse linux sles 9 running as a guest under vm 5.3. We are out of disk on our ds8100, and, rather than license more disk, I am considering a vtl and illiminate our onsite 3494. So, I am looking for a place to start. Sepaton seems very expensive, so wondering w