Hi Zoltan Thanks for your inputs. We have no plan to use as File device class and may be not good idea to use either directory container stg pool. Currently we are using S3 as target for long term storage and looking for some other alternatives as we have stored more than 8 PB and don’t want to be single archival storage.
Regards Sarav On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 9:15 PM, Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu> wrote: > 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> > -- Thanks & Regards, Saravanan Mobile: +65-8228 4384
