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Re: HELP with TSM and SAN

2002-03-14 11:42:27
Subject: Re: HELP with TSM and SAN
From: Eliza Lau <lau AT VTCAT.CC.VT DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:39:56 -0500
What I am trying to achieve is to have all SAN and non-SAN clients backup to a
disk storage pool that is on the SAN and then migrate to the SAN-attahced
3494.  We will have 5 SAN clients and 300+ non-SAN clients with only 6 tape
drives.  I don't want the 5 SAN clients to tie up the tape drives with LAN-free
backup during the backup window.  The Exchange backup alone takes 2 hours.
Is this doable with a AIX TSM server?

Eliza

>
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> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Eliza Lau
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:46 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: HELP with TSM and SAN
>
> >
> > 1. LAN FREE B/A is available with the Storage Agent in TSM 4.2
> >
> > 2. SANergy MDC cannot run on AIX - WIN2k, WINNT, Solaris, Red Hat and
> > SuSe.
>
> Thanks Adolph.  This clears things up.  But there is indeed a SANergy
> client for AIX.  The Tivoli rep just quoted me a license.  It requires
> 130 points.  Then why can't I run the SANergy MDC
> on a W2K box to export the disk storage pool to the AIX SANergy client
> where the TSM server is.  From this disk storage pool backup files will
> migrate to the 3494.  The W2K box and the AIX TSM server will both be on
> the SAN.
>
> Eliza, why would you want to do this? What are you trying to achieve?
> Maybe we should take this off the list server. My email is
> akahan AT ica DOT net.
>
>
> >
> > 3. The non-SAN clients can backup to a SAN or non-SAN disk pool. The
> TSM
> > server writes to the disk pool, the client does not. If the TSM server
> > has access to the SAN then I would have all of the 3494 tapes attached
> > to the SAN. Partitioning the library is not required. All of my
> clients
> > with 3494 libraries and SAN, have all of the drives on the SAN.
> >
> > 4. Server Free backup will require the use of a San Data Gateway -
> this
> > is a hardware box- The current box available from IBM is a 2108-G07.
> >
> > 5. Server Free means both the TSM Server and the Client are not doing
> > i/o to the disk or tape for backup purposes. This comes with TSM 5.1.
> > Initially this will be very limited in the clients that are supported
> > and the TSM server platform.
> >
> > Adolph Kahan
> >
> >
>
> Eliza Lau
> Virginia Tech Computing Center
> 1700 Pratt Drive
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> lau AT vt DOT edu
>
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