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July 29th, 2010 13:00
Celerra NDMP and Data Domain STK L180 emulation
Hello guys,
Data Domain documentation says their VTL software emulates STK L180 tape drives, i do not see those drives listed in NAS NDMP Interop matrix, so i can't attach Data Domain box to Celerra ?
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Rainer_EMC
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July 30th, 2010 04:00
Hi,
I dont think we qualify invididual library controls
its a pretty basic SCSI command set and most customers choose to connect the library control to the backup server anyway
esp. since most customers share a library between NDMP and normal backups - there it makes more sense to let the backup software do the library control
with Data Domain now being part of the EMC family I have no doubt that we can make it work :-)
Rainer
Rainer_EMC
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July 30th, 2010 01:00
Hi dynamox,
this is the answer I got from DataDomain:
STK L180 is the media changer model that we emulate.
The tape drives that we emulate are
- IBM LTO-1
- IBM LTO-2
- IBM LTO-3
Rainer
dynamox
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July 30th, 2010 03:00
thank you Rainer, do you know if DART has a driver for STK L180 changer ? (if i present entire vtl library to datamovers and not just the drives.)
dynamox
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July 30th, 2010 04:00
i can create 64 virtual tape libraries on DD880 so i could dedicate one vtl completely to Celerra. By the way, i opened a chat session with EMC support and was told Data Domain was not supported for Celerra NDMP. I am sure the guy was looking at the same NDMP support matrix as i was.
If somebody from corporate reading this, Data Domain was acquired a year ago ...can we please... please add it to support matrix so customers don't have to jump through hoops and get conflicting responses.
Thank you
Rainer_EMC
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July 30th, 2010 04:00
thanks for letting us know
I'll escalate it
Rainer
odonovan_kevin
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July 30th, 2010 05:00
Was looking at this before and spoke to Data Domain, who confirmed they had qualified the Data Domain with Celerra. Unfortunately at that time Celerra engineering had not yet qualified the Data Domain box with the Celerra, but I think it should only be a matter of time. We do have a number of customers successfully using Data Domain boxes as backup destinations for Celerras.
Go to the Data Domain website (http://www.datadomain.com) and search for Celerra, there's a few case studies on there involving the Data Domain and Celerra.
dynamox
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July 30th, 2010 06:00
Kevin,
i need to be able to call EMC support and not get the run around that EMC does not support it and i need to talk to Data Domain. Data Domain is EMC now. I can not make any assumptions when i am getting ready to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on VTL infrastructure.
Thanks
Rainer_EMC
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July 30th, 2010 06:00
Hi dynamox,
I understand.
It looks like you were just a bit faster than the publishing process :-)
I've been told support for Data Domain 4.8 will be in the support matrix next week.
regards
Rainer
dynamox
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July 30th, 2010 08:00
How about 4.9 ?
mrsad
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June 9th, 2011 01:00
I'm using a DD670 VTL (STK L180 / IBM LTO3 emulated) with a Celerra right now, works without a hitch.