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Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

2006-05-13 11:41:46
Subject: Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM
From: TSM_User <tsm_user AT YAHOO DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 08:41:16 -0700
I appreciate you going back and forth with me on this but I think you are 
missing my point. This isn't a TSM configuration issue. The mount points 
themselves have been created by this customer and they have the name of the 
physical server in them and that changes when the cluster groups move from one 
node to another node in the cluster. This is completey outside of TSM.  The 
drives are fine. They have the virtual server name in their path, they show up 
as clustered drives and I am backing them as they should be with the TSM 
BAClient.
   
  My main question is do you have mount points on your cluster that uses VVM?  
If you do can you open the BAClient that lists the mount points.  Then go to 
View | File Detatils.  See if in the path TSM sees for the mountpoints you see 
the physical server name or the virtual server name.  If you see the virtual 
server name then I know that this customer of mine has something configured 
incorrectly in VVM and if I saw a screen shot of what you see then I can tell 
them they have a config issue in VVM.  If you see your physical server name and 
not your virtual server name then you will see my delima because that name in 
that path will change when you move the group to a different node in the 
cluster.  When the path changes, the filespace name that TSM sees changes and 
then when the data is backed up on that node it will run another first time 
backup of all the data.  It is for the mount points alone that we are looking 
at the rename script.
   
  Kyle

"Bos, Karel" <Karel.Bos AT ATOSORIGIN DOT COM> wrote:
  Hi,

File space rename? Not if you configure the ITSM ba client for the cluster 
node(s) correctly!

Clustercontroler A will have all its drives stored under \\A\drive$
Clustercontroler B will have all its drives stored under \\A\drive$

The virtual server(s) will store all there data under \\clustername\drive$\mp . 
One of my clusters.

Cluster controlers cln021 en cln022, clustername cluster02 and (one of its) 
virtual server names fs021

Virtual server
FS021 \\cluster02\f$ 1 WinNT NTFS Yes 8,628.6 50.9

FS021 \\cluster02\f$\users1 2 WinNT NTFS Yes 258,938. 99.4

FS021 \\cluster02\f$\users2 3 WinNT NTFS Yes 258,938. 75.3

F:\adsm\DSM.OPT
nodename nuwnlfs021
HTTPPORT 1582
CLUSTERNODE YES
CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO

Clustercontroler A
CLN021 \\cln021\c$ 1 WinNT NTFS Yes 34,718.6 33.6

CLN021 SYSTEM 2 WinNT SYSTEM Yes 0.0 0.0
SERVICES 
CLN021 SYSTEM 3 WinNT SYSTEM Yes 0.0 0.0
STATE 
CLN021 ASR 4 WinNT NTFS Yes 0.0 0.0
C:\win32app\ibm\adsm\baclient\dsm.opt
DOMain C:
domain systemservices
domain systemstate
clusternode no
CLUSTERDISKSONLY Yes

Clustercontroler B
CLN022 \\cln022\c$ 1 WinNT NTFS Yes 34,718.6 39.6

CLN022 SYSTEM 2 WinNT SYSTEM Yes 0.0 0.0
SERVICES 
CLN022 SYSTEM 3 WinNT SYSTEM Yes 0.0 0.0
STATE 
CLN022 ASR 4 WinNT NTFS Yes 0.0 0.0
C:\win32app\ibm\adsm\baclient\dsm.opt
DOMain C:
domain systemservices
domain systemstate
clusternode no
CLUSTERDISKSONLY Yes


Regards,

Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
TSM_User
Sent: vrijdag 12 mei 2006 1:36
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

Karel,
How do you deal with the fact that the mount point name changes when the 
cluster groups moves from one node to another? We were thinking about having 
two seperate dsm.opt files. Each would have the domain statments that list the 
mount point names based on the server name. Then we were going to have a *.bat 
file run as a preschedule command that would rename the mount point's file 
space name on the TSM server so that the data always got backed up to the same 
file space no matter what server the mount point was on. Did you do anything 
like this? Or, do you just let the mount points backup to two different 
filespaces. Remember the file space name has the complete path in it which 
includes the server name which will make it look like a different mount point 
based on what server it is mounted from.

Kyle

"Bos, Karel" wrote:
Hi,

Read about it after the my first Windows 2003 cluster server, with mounted 
disks, as ITSM back-up client. Normal clusters I had done that before, so I did 
the standard config:
- Install BA client on the cluster controlers;
- Setup the back-up of the clustercontrolers (clusternode=no and domain only 
local stuff);
- Setup cluster node (clusternode=yes and only cluster stuff).

And the last would not work as before. Mountpoint are on windows local so the 
back-up would create \\controlereA\mp and after the switch \\controleB\mp. 

After a while I though lets look in the change history of the newest ITSM 
client at that time and found the (for me) new option CLUSTERDISKSONLY and some 
example combinations of CLUSTERNODE YES/No CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO/Yes

Now I use the 

CLUSTERNODE YES
CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO
And define every mp on the clusternode. 


Regards,
Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
TSM_User
Sent: donderdag 11 mei 2006 0:42
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

It looks like this option is used to allow the local disks to show up as well 
when you have "CLUSTERNODE YES" in the dsm.opt file. This may get us to a point 
where we can move from backing up the mount points on one node in the cluster 
to backing them up under the node for the cluster group. However, our real 
problem still sits with how the mountpoints themselves show up to the OS. The 
mount point name has the local server in it (ex 
\\serverA\Data\Accouting\Payable). When the cluster group moves to SERVERB the 
mount point name changes to include that server name 
(\\serverB\Data\Accounting\Payable). From the users perspective the mount point 
itself is still Payable but becuase TSM includes the entire path in the 
filespace name for the mountpoint simply allowing them to be backed up isn't 
enough. As you can see I'd need to two seperate DOMAIN entries based on which 
node in the cluster the group was mounted on.

Did you suggest this option becuase you read about it or are you using it? We 
may test it but if the data is going to still backup under a different file 
space name based on what side of the cluster the group is on we don't think 
that is any better than what we have now (backing it up through the physical 
server).

K

"Bos, Karel" wrote:
Hi,

In Windows 2003 and the newer ITSM clients there is one extra option.
See the client doc for extra info.

CLUSTERNODE YES
CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO 

Regards,

Karel


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
TSM_User
Sent: woensdag 10 mei 2006 15:08
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Clustered Mount points don't show up as clustered in TSM

I have a cluster that has two separate two node file clusters. These clusters 
have both clustered disk and clustered mount points. These started out as 
normal Microsoft Windows 2003 file clusters but then the added Veritas Volume 
Manager to the mix.

With Veritas Volume Manager instead of each disk and mount point being a 
separate clustered resource when you look at them in cluster administrator 
there is a single clustered resource called "Volume Manager" or something like 
that. Then on the properties\parameters tab of that clustered resource you see 
all the disk and mount points.

My problem is that when I have "ClusterNode Yes" in the dsm.opt file and launch 
the GUI using it, I see ever single clustered disk as I would expect but none 
of the mount points show up. Then when I set "ClusterNode No" I see the local 
disk and the mount points. The scheduled backup also reports an error "Not 
Clustered Disk" when it trys to backup the mount points when "ClusterNode Yes" 
is set in the options file it uses.

This seems to be a simple problem where they just have to fix the mount points 
and set them up correctly. However, those mount points fail back and forth with 
the cluster and when they do everyone can access them as they should. So the 
customer feels that the mount points must be setup correctly. The mount points 
themselves are all created on disk that is clustered. Also, just like normal 
mount points when TSM gets to that folder in the file structure it does not 
back up the data through the disk drive because it expect the data to be backed 
up through the mount point.

I'm wondering if there is any chance anyone else has run into this? If not then 
I was wondering if anyone else has mount points being backed up by TSM on a 
regular Windows 2003 cluster without Veritas Volume Manager.
If I can at least confirm that in a non-Volume Manager solution the mount 
points do show up as "Clustered" then I can lean more on Veritas to explain why 
theirs show up differently.

For now we are backing up the mount points through the single local node name 
that backs up the physical server and local disk. I am thinking about trying to 
create a options file on the clustered disk with "ClusterNode No" and then 
seeing if I can actually go through and create a client acceptor service and 
client acceptor cluster resource.
I've only ever created these two things with options files that had 
"ClusterNode Yes" before.

Thanks,
Kyle


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