Zoltan, If I understood well, your storage is Isilon based : in this case do not even think of using CONTAINER pools, as performance will be horrible. Not much time to talk about this, but to make a very long story short, we are about to dump/trash /resell the brand new Isilon arrays we bought 8 months ago, and to replace them with direct attached storage (Storwize), as we never reached sufficient performance levels. Cases have been opened with IBM and EMC as well, to no result at all, beside a suspected block size issue which would refrain the Isilons to work at expected speed. If you plan to go for such a hardware configuration, my only advice is : run away, as fast as you can !
Cheers. Arnaud -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: CONTAINER pool experiences We are investigating using CONTAINER pools for our offsite replica server vs the current FILE method which is killing us with the constant dedup, reclaims, etc. So, what are the "gotchas' ? We are still at V7.1.7.400 so I figure we will have to do without any new features added in the V8 branch. But is it problematic enough at V7 to avoid it? Your thoughts? Experiences? -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/
