The LSC software (www.lsci.com) you are speaking of is actually called SAM-FS. Sun purchased LSC a few months ago. It is a great product, unfortunately it must run on a Solaris UFS file system. It can not run on the Netapp at this time.

Mike Ball mball@datalink.com

-----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hardin [mailto:geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:37 PM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Re: HSM and the filers ...

We've had a couple meetings with Hitachi Data Systems recently and they mentioned in passing an HSM product called LSC that they claim will work on the filers. I'm not sure if it's a stand-alone product, or if it has to be combined with other software (Highpoint - a data management package, perhaps Veritas, etc.). Like I said, they didn't spend too much time discussing this product; they were pushing the Sun 9960. Or maybe it was the Network Storage Solutions filer... whichever. I can't find any information about it on their website (www.hds.com), but I'm sure someone must be watching, and they might respond to this...

Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com

"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