Tom, This was sent to me some time ago from Darleen Cormier from Netapp.

-steve

Hi Steve, The reason that neither Veritas Storage Replicator or other HSM packages currently support HSM migration of data to and from NetApp filers is because DataONTAP does NOT support DMAPI protocol. DMAPI means Data Management Application Programming Interface and this along with the X/Open Data Storage Management (XDSM) standard allow HSM functionality across a wide range of operating environments without sacrificing system reliability. Without this, the HSM software has no idea of file attributes or location. This reason I'm giving you all this exciting info (YAWN) is that most, if not all, HSM packages use these protocols. Until NetApp is able to support these protocols, or the 3rd party companies are able to come up with some other way of doing HSM, we will not be able to offer an HSM solution to our customers. Now, Good news/ Bad News. The good news is we are receiving more and more requests for this functionality, and I do know that engineering is looking at possibly adding support for the DMAPI protocol. The bad news is that no date has been set for beginning to implement this. Sorry we can't tell you anything better.

Steve Roche Senior Account Executive DataLink - Information Means The World http://www.datalink.com

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05/04/01 01:47 AM

I just took the NetApp backup survey that they sent out and one of the questions was about using hierarchical storage management with filers.

Does anyone know of any HSM products out there that currently work with filers?

Thanks, Tom