I haven't seen much on the NetApp site, but I read the following press release and it talks about Netapp's new NearStore product.
http://www.netapp.com/news/press/2001/news_rel_20011210a.html
Not a HSM solution straight out of the box, but definitely a step in the right direction. Last report I read said this was supposed to handle up to 96TB on one head, meaning this one piece could be the middle step between active data on the filer and archive data on tape.
Again, this is still fairly new, and I haven't heard much discussion from our NetApp dealer. We're meeting with them just after the new year, so maybe (if the details are not covered by NDA) I'll have more info to share. Or maybe someone from NetApp could shed some light on this interesting sounding piece of equipment (hint hint).
"Waters, G Scott DSTI" wrote:
I was wondering if anyone is aware of or using any type of Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) with their filers.
We have been throwing and throwing disk space at the users and the (of course) continue to 'gobble' it up at a tremendous pace. We would like some sort of system that ages inactive files and moves them off to 'near-line' storage.
We had a meeting with our Veritas reps today and they had nothing. In fact they spent most of the meeting blasting NetApp.
In your responses please do not talk about quotas and all that good stuff. The current thought process is to allow 'unlimited storage' ... we just need to manage it through HSM.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Scott Waters Technical Manager - DSTI Network Systems Team - US Army HQ SBCCOM scott.waters@sbccom.apgea.army.mil
Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com