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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hello;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Appologies for being so direct, but I need some help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">We’re a 30 000 people company, mostly doing postal & financial things in Belgium. In fact, we are the largest company in Belgium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">We got ever greater pressure on budgets (don’t we all), and we’re facing a 5 year old VTL near end of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Our biggest consumption is Oracle (give or take 143 Tb backups / archives per week). Archives are written to SAN disks first and then offloaded to the VTL. That
box is 128 Tb ( 128 Tb on 2 datacentres) in a redundant setup. Our backup retention is about 3 days due to this…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">After those 3 days, the VTL offloads to a tape robot (very large storagetek sl8500 with all expansions).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What we would like to do; is introduce gluster ( in the form of Red Hat Storage for support) to replace the VTL. I know this is possible, in my free time I organize
fosdem ( <a href="https://fosdem.org/2014/">https://fosdem.org/2014/</a> ) , and I’ve seen test setups which were similar but smaller.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Then our management asked for reference cases. Believe it or not, but red hat couldn’t give one customer that used gluster for oracle backups nor archives, and
I can’t find any trace online. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">However .. I did find this :
<a href="http://www.gestas.net/files/webinar_follow_up.pdf">http://www.gestas.net/files/webinar_follow_up.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Where I find this statement : “Do you have anyone using this as a backup target for RMAN (Oracle backups) and replicating those backups/logs? => Absolutely. Backup-to-disk
is a great use case for gluster, lots of groups use us for that. We work well with RMAN, Netbackup, Commvault, etc. “<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Well; we need exactly that, and we use netbackup to orchestrate the oracle backups… Can we have some kind of testimonial, someone who has done this (and how )?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Mvg; Bart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="48" height="27" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEF618.B47C5C20" alt="bpost_logo_kleur_klein"><span lang="DE"> Weijs Bart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Senior Sysadmin unix/linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">M. +32 498 40 96 53<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Muntcentrum, 1000 Brussel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:bart.weijs@bpost.be">bart.weijs@bpost.be</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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