toasters June 2009

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Re: HSM/ILM for Netapp
by John Stoffel 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

John> You don't want to backup through the acopia, since it's a big John> bottleneck, so you backup the Filers directly. But then you need to John> manage and track *where* your files really are stored, and that John> becomes a nightmare to deal with. Kyle> The latest version of the F5/Acopia software (v5.0.0) introduces Kyle> a feature called File Tracking to specifically address this Kyle> issue. This doesn't help when you do NDMP backups, does it? Also, do you *ever* trust version X.0 software? *grin* I'm not moving to CommVault 8.x or OnTap 7.3.x until they're more stable and widely tested. I need stability at work. John

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ESX volume design question
by steve klise 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

What would you do? ESX 3.5 running all windows servers; FCP with all fiber drives We have an existing 6030 with 1 aggr, 1 large volume with ~5 LUNS 500GB a piece; running DOT 7.24. (upgrading soon, so no dedupe running yet). We have a new HA 6040 (PAM cards) =). The existing volume on the 6030 is still at 100 percent fractional reserve. We have SMVI running in our test environment, but not in prod yet. We wanted to snapmirror from the 6030 to the 6040 and visa versa. The 6040 is running 7.3.1.1 so I can only go from the 6030 to the 6040 for now. No vmware on the 6040 yet. Question: I have 3 shelves each for each head (6 300gb total for the 6040) and 1 big aggr on the 6030, 11.5TB agr 4.97used in the volume on the 6030. I was thinking of having the volumes for the 6040 @ 750GB and 1 LUN. I am averaging ~20 windows boxes. I figured when SMVI runs, it is only 1 snapmirror update vs running the job with allt he LUNS in 1 big aggr and multiple snapmirrors happening. I will make the fractional reserve set to 50% on the 6040 with thin provisioning at the LUN level, and dedupe. Pros: I think its more granular. Having to find a location for 6TB is a bit difficult Con: Not as much dedupe by having all VM's in 1 volume. Thoughts, experiences, gotchas.? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ESX-volume-design-question-tp23821864p23821864.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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toasters June 2009