We have had lots of issues using NFS (ISILON) storage as standard FILE pools and would never try to use them for containers. Currently we only use them as overflow/next stgpools (vs active, ingest of backups) since we simply don't have sufficient, proper storage to handle backups. IBM's official statement about NFS:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-server-support-nfs On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:05 AM Marc Lanteigne <marclantei...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi Sarav, > > For Directory Container Pools, NFS mounted filesystems are not > recommended. The nature of the file I/O of directory container pools > doesn't work well with NFS mounted filesystems. > > If you plan to use Directory Container pools, I highly recommend that you > follow the Blueprints, otherwise you may not be happy with the performance. > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-blueprints > > - > Thanks, > Marc... > > Marc Lanteigne > Spectrum Protect Specialist AVP / SRT > IBM Systems, Spectrum Protect / Plus > +1-506-460-9074 > marclantei...@ca.ibm.com > Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 to 15:30 Eastern > > IBM > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of > Saravanan Palanisamy > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 09:45 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ADSM-L] NFS Storage used as directory container > storage pool > > Did anyone try using NFS file system as Directory container storage pool ? > > is there any drawback to use such options? > > we have enough bandwidth 25G to support NFS mount points and its dedicated > for backup servers. > > > > Regards > Sarav > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Saravanan > Mobile: +65-8228 4384 > -- *Zoltan Forray* Enterprise Backup Administrator VMware Systems Administrator Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms Team VCU Infrastructure 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/ <https://adminmicro2.questionpro.com>
