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Moon-Buddy, I'm wondering how you decided on 100 GiB volume sizes.

You should ask your TSM admins to give you access to this report. http://ibm.co/YgzRtK

Otherwise you will have to access the schedule log files that are on the servers that you manage. Not cool....

Yes, for XIV, one LUN-LV for the database but still make multiple database containers to force more parallel IO out of DB2. http://ibm.co/Xc3AXg

The IBM product that handles multiple TSM servers in one place is Reporting and Monitoring for TSM. It is included as part of TSM. What is it like? Here are a few videos to give you an idea:
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You said that you are assuming faster backups and faster restores. Let's consider the first part, faster backups. What do you plan to change to make that happen?

I just wanted to let everyone here know that the TSM Reporting and Monitoring Development site is up and running. This site and process is nothing like you have ever seen in the TSM world. It's wide...

Don't get hung up on the backup before dedupe copypool requirement. That was a 'feature' for v6.1 days. With source side deduplication you can't backup data before dedupe, it arrives at the TSM...

What is the average size of your daily backup?

I started with ADSM on OS/2, server. It was very good to me.

No, but I am curious as to why you would want to.

Yes it is possible. What do you mean by granular? Have you looked at the docs in the TSM wiki? http://ibm.co/R0I2Zc

Unless there is a compelling business reason for multiple instances, I would consider consolidating into one instance.

The new TSM for VE deployment guide just got published.

https://twitter.com/KenBury/statuses/198526039411011584

I guess the IBM stealth marketing worked really well for the introduction of TSM v6.3 which came out late last year. The v6.3.1 version was released a few weeks ago too. One of the major features of...

Are you running on a Power 7? https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IC80341

You can use the NetApp filer for storage for the FB repositories but the question is what are you protecting and what are your recovery scenarios. For example if the data you are protecting is on the...

I suggest contacting your Tivoli sales rep. They will do an analysis of your environment and tell you which model makes the most business sense for you. I have heard that 80% of customers will be...

Yes. The platform (Windows/Linux/AIX etc.) of the monitoring server or the monitored TSM servers don't need to match.

Looks like you may have run out of space in the pool, ANR4520I.

Here is a link to the Oct. 18 TSM 6.3 Customer Announcement call presentation and replay. http://bit.ly/pZdzTN

What do you mean by overhead?

TSM for VE 6.3 has support for VSphere 5, should be available on Nov. 21. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/rilovV

The 3 -5 times represents the expected range. The guide indicates that 3.5 times is representative of a 30 day retention. The amount of data depends on the change rate and retention.

Are you trying to set the bufpoolsize on your TSM 6.2 server? It's not a server option any more.

I am wondering how many of you are familiar with the new request for enhancement (RFE) site? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/?BRAND_ID=90

It is a new and open approach to managing community...

The incremental backup function is licensed as part of TSM for Virtual Environments. You will need to install TSM for VE on your backup server to get the license file. Otherwise, the TSM B/A client...

The retention is based on the full backups not the incremental backups. The incremental backups are tied to the full and will be expired together. Using your list as an example you have 2 versions.

I agree with Jafco regarding putting the database on one volume. Based on what I am hearing from other customers and corroborated by a DB2 performance white paper, when using stripped disk for the...

How large are the pdf files?

I trust you considered TSM for Virtual Environments. http://bit.ly/tsm4ve You would have avoided these integration issues and saved some disk. Copy Storage pools have a direct dependency on the...

TSM Copy Services and TSM Advanced Copy Services have been replaced by Tivoli Storage Flashcopy Manager, FCM. For Microsoft SQL and Exchange FCM will work with any disk that has a Microsoft VSS...

I'm going to make an assumption that you want to backup Exchange using a VSS method to TSM. If you want to do this then you will need TSM for Mail, you will also need TSM EE but that is for licensing...

The VMs will be represented by filespaces under the node that does the 'backup vm'. Typically you will name the node to represent the VM datacenter, that will be your 'data center' node. You can have...

You should look look at v6.2.2 client version. It has support for VMware image backups for both of the Vstorage API and VCB types. The documentation is here: http://bit.ly/fvZhjZ

Yes there is now a service that migrates data from other backup systems to TSM. They can also help with a TSM 5.x migration to TSM 6.2. http://www.butterflysoftware.net/ You can contact me and I will...

TSM for Sharepoint version 6.1.3 is available: http://bit.ly/tsm4sp613

You need to review the full-capacity and sub-capacity licensing rules. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html#fullsubcap

You are going to be...

Nicolas,

Review the active data pool features again. It is like a copy storage pool except that it keeps only the active versions of files. So like a copy storage pool it gets updated...

This article has some interesting statistics related to TSM de-dupe. http://bit.ly/bqgYnj

The v6.2 client will work with v5.5 for the VMware functions.

TSM has 2 ways of de-duplicating data. First the v6.1 method of turning on de-duplication for a disk pool with a device class of FILE. There is a process that runs that identifies duplicate data....

Here is a link to a STE presentation that covers the dedupe process in TSM 6.1. http://bit.ly/dvgrek

This new deduplication takes some getting used to so go slow and test it out before putting it...

I'm just getting ready to leave this year's Pulse, Tivoli's annual conference. I attended a session with IBM's Dave Cannon (TSM Architect) who went over the TSM 6.2 announcement. TSM 6.2 begins...

Take a look at turning on subfile processing on the proxy. It's documented in the TSM 6.1 manual. It's in the 'Performing full virtual machine backups' section.

Have you considered adding a weekly or monthly image backup to the incremental backups?