<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">New York Genome Center runs IBM Storage Archive (eeadm/ltfsee/spectrumarchive).<input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"expandedWatermarking":false,"expires":false,"sms":false,"expirationNum":1,"expirationUnit":"days","isManaged":false,"persistentProtection":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"7","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"><div>We have 35 PiB+ in duplicated tape pools, we only ever eject SET B tapes to send offsite, SET A remains available and via an IBM TS4500 tape library using TS1160 drives and a mix of JD and JE media. We had some scaling issues early on and now have separate ilm policy tasks for large vs small files, and the most recent very small files stay on both staging disk and tape.<br>Persistent filesystem view makes querying what exists quick and easy.</div><div>We've only had an issue with tape spanning once when someone tried to create and send a 20TB+ file to archive, but we were able to reorganize the data into smaller files. We have some hooks to "pre recall" batches of files via our overall production workflow automation. We don't have a direct way for research users to recall files but I'm sure they'd be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM Neil Conner <<a href="mailto:neil@mbari.org">neil@mbari.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>We use Storage Archive and are happy with it. Policies are very customizable using SQL-like queries.<div>We have 4.5 PB archived onto LTO8 tape. I haven’t had any issues with tape spanning.</div><div>We create two copies and send full tapes offsite.</div><div>Stub files create a seamless experience for users. We wrote a simple self-service tool to recall files. No complaints.</div><div>If you happen to use Veritas NetBackup, NetBackup can selectively skip premigrated and migrated files so you can backup a directory with a mix of file states and the migrated files won’t be rehydrated.</div><div>(Migrated = file is on tape only, premigrated = both tape and resident, resident = disk only)</div><div><br></div><div>I’m happy to answer any questions you might have.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 15, 2024, at 3:33 PM, ANDREW BEATTIE <<a href="mailto:abeattie@au1.ibm.com" target="_blank">abeattie@au1.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">So full disclosure I work for IBM 🙂</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">IBM Storage Scale supports multiple DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) offerings</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">There are 3 Offerings available with an IBM logo associated.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">IBM Storage Archive (LTFS) - Simple light weight, - does not support tape spanning (can be an issue for LTO, not an issue for Enterprise tape with TS1170 - 50TB media), </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>can be slower for tape reclamation processes depending on how the environment is configured. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Does have specific tape library support - not all libraries have been validated. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> Robust architecture, easy to scale out by adding additional Archive nodes as required, plenty of client references</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Licensed on nodes deployed</span><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">IBM Storage Protect Extended Edition + IBM Storage Protect Space Management - Solid robust architecture has been successfully deployed delivering HSM capability for 15+ years. Potentially best integrated with IBM Storage scale with the mmbackup / SOBAR integration for both backup / archive for </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> same data sets. Single DB2 Database server can be seen as a performance bottleneck at very large scale. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 2 licensing options - Capacity based (per TB) or by Processor Value Unit (PVU)</span><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">IBM High Performance Storage System - (HPSS) Offered as a Managed Service (options for Partners to provide Lvl 1 support) - Stand alone fully featured archive platform that does have a DMAPI integration connector for Storage Scale, Very useful for very large scale out environments as the Managed Services costs<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>are a fixed cost per annum regardless of capacity. 20PB / 200PB the "license" is the same. </div><div 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style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">HPE DMF7 - HPE have done extensive work to build support for DMF 7 to natively integrate with IBM Storage Scale - at least 2 referenceable clients in APAC region</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div 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style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">In many ways your decision will come down to how the clients want their users to experience data management, Do they want the users to be responsible for the management of their data, or do they want an automated experience where data management simply happens and users don't have to worry about or think about archival policy / process / requirements. </div><div 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solution leveraging on ILM to Tier to Tape.</span><br><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">My concerns are:</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">- reliability</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">- complexity ( I mean keep it simple ).</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">- future roadmap and lifecycle (this will be used for many years)</span><br><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">What to choose for Tape Management?</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">IBM Storage Space Management for Linux + IBM Storage Protect.</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">or</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">IBM Storage Archive</span><br><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">Any opinions are welcome,</span><br><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px">Look forward to receive 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