<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">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 havenβt 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 wonβt be rehydrated.</div><div>(Migrated = file is on tape only, premigrated = both tape and resident, resident = disk only)</div><div><br></div><div>Iβm happy to answer any questions you might have.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 15, 2024, at 3:33 PM, ANDREW BEATTIE <abeattie@au1.ibm.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 π</div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span>can be slower for tape reclamation processes depending on how the environment is configured. </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span>Does have specific tape library support - not all libraries have been validated. </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ββββββββββββββββββββββββRobust architecture, easy to scale out by adding additional Archive nodes as required, plenty of client references</div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββLicensed on nodes deployed</span><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 ββββββββββββββββββββββββfor 15+ years. Potentially best integrated with IBM Storage scale with the mmbackup / SOBAR integration for both backup / archive for </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ββββββββββββββββββββββββsame data sets. Single DB2 Database server can be seen as a performance bottleneck at very large scale. </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ2 licensing options - Capacity based (per TB) or by Processor Value Unit (PVU)</span><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 ββββββββββββββββββββββββplatform that does have a DMAPI integration connector for Storage Scale, Very useful for very large scale out environments as the Managed Services costs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>βββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ</span><span>ββββββ </span>are a fixed cost per annum regardless of capacity. 20PB / 200PB the "license" is the same. </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">HPe Logo</div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kalray Logo</div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">PixitMedia Ngenea - I haven't done anything with this platform but I'm aware that it exists and has an extensive following in the film & TV verticals. </div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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 class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> gpfsug-discuss <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org</a>> on behalf of Nicolas Perez de Arenaza <<a href="mailto:nperez@giux.com">nperez@giux.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 January 2024 8:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org">gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org">gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] ILM tiering to Tape - What to use Protect Space Management or Spectrum Archive?</span><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr" lang="en" id="x_pfptBanner0f607ux" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello,</span><br><br><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Working on offering IBM Storage Scale 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 some,</span><br><br><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thanks</span><br><br><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">NicolΓ‘s.<br><br>NicolΓ‘s PΓ©rez de Arenaza<br>Gerente de ConsultorΓa | GIUX S.A.<br>Tel Dir: (5411) 5218-0099 | Ofi: (5411) 5218-0037 x 201 | Cel: (54911) 4428-1795<br><a href="mailto:nperez@giux.com">nperez@giux.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>| Skype ID: nperezdearenaza |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.giux.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAb9da9881-dc23-6520-e4d8-0655ab056eb5" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://www.giux.com</a></span></div><div id="x_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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