Re: Shared file systems other than GPFS

2017-02-23 Thread Harris, Steven
Thanks Frank I appreciate the input. Steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Kraemer Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2017 10:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Shared file systems other than GPFS Steve

Re: Shared file systems other than GPFS

2017-02-23 Thread Frank Kraemer
Steve, Spectrum Scale (aka GPFS) is a scalable paralell Filesystem for High Performance I/O applications: the most important thing is that Spectrum Scale (GPFS) is a paralell filesystem and of course it's a shared filesystem. Each GPFS Server nodes offers something called an "NSD" service (NSD =

Shared file systems other than GPFS

2017-02-22 Thread Harris, Steven
Further to my last post. TSM server 7.1 on AIX, 7.1 TSM for VE on Linux X86_64 with storage agent, currently backing up to Protectier VTL. My customer needs a significant capacity expansion in reasonably short order. Disk is cheap, Protectier is out of the picture for non-technical reasons.