> 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
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >