Nearstore _was_ required for A-SIS (not going forward, so I hear) and also enables the filer to act more like a nearstore - that is, more simultaneous snapmirror sessions. From what I can tell, there's nothing else to it.
FWIW, it has nothing to do with using ATA storage and you can 'segregate' old data off of FC disks onto ATA with any filer - but it's whole volume movement, nearstore doesn't help you with this. Sounds like you need to look into an FPOLICY enabled archive solution (Brocade has FLM, EMC has one via Rainfinity, Symantec has Enterprise Vault for example).
Glenn
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Adam McDougall Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:55 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Nearstore option usage?
So we have some FAS3040 and a nearstore license and I'd like to figure out how I can take advantage of it. It was required for A-SIS but I'd like to look into identifying 'old' data in my largest volume and segregating it off of fibre channel disks. What is required and how can
I get started? It seems hard to find info on NOW about this. The closest thing so far was the following document which hints strongly at the capability but not how. Any tips? Thanks.