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on speed, as Paul details:
“Fibre Channel offers us the
maximum throughput, with IP
1-2-1
connections you don’t get the
same speed. We are moving
towards iSCSI for future
projects, but, at the moment,
our IP networks are generally
oversubscribed, so iSCSI is
not the best solution for
Y backup.
“Long-term, iSCSI is probably
the way to go, as Fibre
KENNELL
Channel technology doesn’t Kennelly. As Paul puts it: Kennelly describes the DXi: “I
offer the same degree of “With the previous supplier, it call it a baby unit – but it can
P
A
UL
flexibility, but there is a big was a real struggle for them be scaled up. It’s a 2/3U box,
trade-off. For quick backup, to get back to us when we with 1 or 2 TB of storage.
Fibre Channel is the market had any queries. We’re a small Once we’d installed the unit,
leader.” Paul adds: “We IT department and rely on we initially tried to use it with
recently added a new VLAN outside support, and can’t our Exchange servers, but the
dedicated for iSCSI/backup wait indefinitely for someone Quantum de-duplication
traffic, so as not to use the to come back to us.” capability didn’t seem to work
core data networks. that well in this environment,
Personally, I feel that Fibre Following on from the initial as the majority of the data
Channel is the leader still, but success of the Warrington generated each day is unique.
will be superseded by iSCSI backup solution, Lancashire
eventually, especially when Care NHS Foundation Trust However, now installed with
10GB networks are has invested in a further two our file servers, the DXi and
implemented.” Quantum backup products via de-duplication works very
Coolspirit – the first, another well. For file servers, de-dupe
The solution provider tape library performing is spot on – why re-invent the
Another crucial factor in backup duties at the Preston wheel?”
deciding to go with the headquarters site; the second,
Quantum solution, was the a DXi disk solution, initially Paul adds: “In particular,
influence of data storage used in a test environment at we’ve noticed this on backups
company, Coolspirit. Initially the Trust’s Lancaster site. since the Lancaster region
involved with the Lancashire ‘inherited’ part of the
Care NHS Foundation Trust as At the present time, backups disbanded Morecambe Bay
a tape media supplier across are done on a regional basis, Primary Care Trust’s
the organisation’s whole and the Trust still uses tape workload.”
region (a mixture of LTO1s, 3s for backup – it likes the idea
and 4s), it was Coolspirit who of tapes being kept in a The positive influence of
brought Quantum’s fireproof media safe offsite. Coolspirit has clearly been a
technology to Paul’s significant help for Kennelly
attention. This is even the case at and the Trust as they look to
Most importantly, it was the Lancaster, where the DXi obtain the best value for
combination of Coolspirit’s backed-up information is money required of any public
enthusiastic, knowledgeable copied on to tape and then organisation subjected to the
and customer-focused taken offsite. closest scrutiny by its
approach that impressed customers and the media.
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