IBM has extended the Spectrum and Spectrum Protect branding to a wide range of products. There are two products with essentially the same functionality for hierarchical storage management, differentiated only by the operating systems that they support.
IBM has two products that comprise their solutions for archiving in open systems. As its name implies, IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows is specific to file archiving in Windows environments. IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management is file archiving for Linux and AIX environments. Despite the common Spectrum Protect name, these are two different software products.
As its name implies, IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows is specific to file archiving in Windows environments. IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management is file archiving for Linux and AIX environments. Spectrum Protect for Space Management is primarily sold into Spectrum Scale (GPFS) environments.
Since the functionality is the same for both products, the initials HSM in the rest of this Brief refers to both unless otherwise noted.
HSM supports selection criteria and exclusions by file types, dates for access or creation, and owners. Stubs are left when files are migrated. An administrator can define migration jobs for each volume.
Migration jobs can be organized in several different ways, including different parts of a directory structure and different types of files. Thresholds can be set to trigger migration based on file system usage.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Archiving Product Brief Includes:
- Overview
- Highlights
- Usage and Deployment
- EvaluScale Table
- Evaluator Group’s Opinion
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