I’ve lived in a couple major metropolitan areas. The kind with rush hour traffic so heavy a toddler on a tricycle can make better time. Sometimes the major arteries have an HOV lane – a golden pathway of asphalt for High Occupancy Vehicles. My route through Minneapolis has one. When I lived in New Jersey, I had to endure 25 miles of watching traffic zoom by us poor slobs in the neighboring lanes. There were times when the force of the air rushing by caused my car to sway. Popular rumor had it that some of the passenger silhouettes were really blowup dolls. It’s New York. Anything is possible and in fact highly probable.
So what do HOV lanes have in common with backup jobs? The new disk pool and disk storage unit design in NetBackup 6.5 allows you to treat some of your most precious client backup jobs as cars privileged to drive the fast...
I’ve always been a lurker when it comes to blogging, posting videos of myself on YouTube, or social networking sites. Secretly I imagine myself running for public office and having my opponent drag out my late night, wine fueled blogging session in the middle of a debate. However, when I saw the Scott Waterhouse’s response (Peace, Love and Revolution) to Tim’s message on OpenStorage I decided to it was time to “break the silence.”
Scott poses a couple questions and concerns that warrant clarification. Especially when the answers are so fun to share.
Misconception – OpenStorage is limited to disk as NAS/NFS/CIFS.
It’s not. A key tenet for the API is to be totally...
