SANergy, SAN-FS, SVC...Some products IBM brings to market are hits, some aren't.
The two aggrivations we had with SANergy (and I'm not talking about my current employer) were that it required a Windows host for CIFS, and a UNIX host for NFS. (I think Solaris was the preferred UNIX at the time for SANergy.) The second aggrivation was that it didn't perform well enough to be worth the trouble, at least in our tests. I think these days, if you have a NFS/CIFS or iSCSI target to back up to, you create one or more disk storage pools on it and have one or more TSM server instances handle keeping track of who is using what. [RC] From: WHEDA TSM <wheda....@wheda.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/06/2010 07:14 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] disk / file pool on SAN without SANergy or GPFS? Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Thanks for the information. It seems that SANergy gets fairly bad press on this forum, or are there success stories out there too? And the software seems ancient (last release in 2002?) Is it still a viable solution? I was hoping that a FILE library shared and managed by the TSM server would handle locking, but this kind of storage is new to me. Thanks... Ken From: Gary Bowers <gbow...@itrus.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/05/2010 09:17 PM Subject: Re: disk / file pool on SAN without SANergy or GPFS? In short no. Sanergy is what allows you to share the filesystem amongst multiple servers. GPFS is a an alternative to SANergy that also provides the file and block locking necessary to share a physical device among multiple hosts. I may be wrong, but I believe that the only two supported LAN free protocols are GPFS and SANergy. If TSM supported CIFS or NFS shares as stgpools it might be able to do something similar with a filer, but I'm pretty confident that is not supported. You definitely cannot do it with iSCSI, because that is a block device, not a file share. Hope this helps. I have not done a SANergy install in 4 years, so things may have changed. Gary Itrus Technologies On May 5, 2010, at 5:30 PM, WHEDA TSM wrote: > Hello... we will be implementing an iSCSI SAN in the near future. > The TSM > server needs more disk storage pool space. I want to build new > storage > pools (FILE type, but perhaps also DISK type) on SAN storage. I don't > need SANergy for this... correct? > > Some of the TSM clients that will reside on the SAN would benefit from > LAN-free backups. All TSM clients and the TSM server are Windows > 2003 / > 2008, we have no other client platforms. > > Without using SANergy or GPFS, can I create a FILE type storage pool > on > SAN storage and define a shared FILE type library so that the TSM > server > and the TSM SAN storage agents can both write to the pool? > > Thanks... Ken U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations --------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
