Duplicate Files

Yes - there are Dedup products from EMC also. "Avamar" may be a potential solution for you. Request you to kindly engage your EMC Account team and/or Technical Consultant for more details and helping you out.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Sandip

VisualSRM will be best bet for CX/NS.

Avamar will du-dupe if you run your backups to it ..it will not dedupe an external share.

That's correct - that's why I mentioned it may be a potential solution But thanks for your clarification.

As "bishtsudhir" rightly mentioned, VisualSRM may be a good choice.

However, I 'll still suggest to engage EMC account team to analyze the environment, requirement and suggest accordingly.

Regards,
Sandip

There is also a product from NTP software to do that

see http://www.ntpsoftware.com/products/ma/

They do have a trial version available for download

Rainer
P.S.: NTP is one of the two software vendors (the other is Northern Parklife) that has a Quota management and reporting software which interfaces with the Celerra DART 5.6 CEPA API
Northern and NTP software is available for purchase from EMC through EMC Select

make sure you talk to your NAS TC about de-dupe roadmap

can you manage tree quotas as well as user quotas ?

actually these products work differently

Rather than using native quota's they implement their own methods

Basically, for Celerra, the quota server registers with the Celerra similar to how a virus checking (CAVA) server does, and the Celerra will sent it all create/delete/append requests

The CQM server then checks in its own database if that user is over quota and allows you to configure what action should happen (EMail, popup,...) ánd if that request should be allowed or denied

This provides capabilities not possible or difficult with native quotas like:

- quota's across multiple file servers
- works with NAS, Windows and Unix
- allows advanced quota's like nested directory quota's
- group and project quotas across systems
- file blocking including deep-scan
- auditing file deletion
- same look and feel across different platforms
- strong reporting
- billing and chargeback application
- low maintenance setup through extensive use of policies, which get replicated and inherited throughout an enterprise