So from the sound of it, a slightly less optimal version of Method A
gets used. It will keep one tape mounted until all running or MediaW
sessions get their crack at it, but while those other sessions are
waiting for access to the tape they won't move on to attempt getting
data from other tapes.
>>> KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM 08/18/06 11:30 AM >>>
TSM will mount and start as many sessions as possible, and the rest
will
be in 'wait media' state until the tape they need (or a tape drive)
becomes available. Given your scenarion, you may have one session
reading tape and the other four waiting for access to the same tape.
When the first session has retrieved ALL the files it needs from the
first tape, it will go to the second (if not in use) and the session
that has been waiting the longest will now get access to that first
tape.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
Troy Frank
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:23 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: server restore behavior
This is more of a curiosity question than a problem. In a
multiple-client restore scenario where you start up say 5 restores at
once from different nodes (with 4 tape drives, and resourceutilization
set to 4 on nodes), how does the server process the request?
Technically, data from all 5 nodes are probably on a lot of the same
tapes. Does it....
A) mount each tape exactly once, getting all data for all running
restores off that tape before unmounting.
B) Process the restores relatively serially for each node, giving
each
all 4 drives until completed. Unmounting/remounting the same tapes
multiple times.
C) Only give each node 1 tape drive to work with, which will
effectively ellicit behavior very similiar to option B.
Or does it do something different than any of these?
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