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Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for a Disaster

2008-03-25 15:06:42
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for a Disaster
From: Shawn Drew <shawn.drew AT AMERICAS.BNPPARIBAS DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:51:50 -0400
I think I read on this list that it is intended for Q4 2008

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When is TSM v.6 going to be released? Sorry If that was mentioned before
here,  I missed it.

Thanks

Joni Moyer wrote:

>Hi Neil,
>
>Thanks for the advice!  TSM v.6 sounds like it's going to be challenging
>yet bring a lot of improvements so it'll be nice when it is released!
Have
>a good one!
>
>********************************
>Joni Moyer
>Highmark
>Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III
>Phone Number: (717)302-9966
>Fax: (717) 302-9826
>joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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>Joni,
>   Should be fine.  Just make sure that your device class points to the
>manual library.
>   You may want to test a small scale DR recovery by creating a DR
>primary and copy pool and putting a single node's data in it and then
>test recovery offsite with this subset of data.
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>If you have a library manager/client relationship defined, you will need
>up run "upd server forcesync=yes" on both the lib manager and client.
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>If yo have both systems (production and DR) operating simultaneously,
>you may want to revise the port numbers on the DR system (and clients
>which attach to it) to prevent any accidents - i.e. if production is
>1500 change DR to 2999.
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>Just think, in a year or so, when TSM V6 uses DB2, you will have to
>re-engineer your replication environment to integrate TSM DB2 with SRDF.
>There is tons of cooperation between IBM and EMC so this should be a
>breeze.
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>Have a nice day!
>Neil Strand
>Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
>Baltimore, MD.
>(410) 580-7491
>Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
>Boldness has genius, power and magic.
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>Joni Moyer
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>Hi Neil,
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>Our disk is entirely EMC and we use SRDF/A for our Mainframe and SAN
>disk and Celerra Replication for our NAS environment.
>
>I was just wondering if it would be ok to remove all of the libraries,
>paths, etc. and still have the software work ok?  When I left it in, it
>couldn't initialize properly because it couldn't find our Virtual tape
>library, SUN SL8500, etc.
>
>Would anyone know if that is ok?  Just let me know.  Thanks!
>
>********************************
>Joni Moyer
>Highmark
>Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
>Fax: (717) 302-9826
>joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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>Joni,
>   That sounds great!
>   What disk storage and replication are you using?
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>Neil Strand
>Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
>Baltimore, MD.
>(410) 580-7491
>Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
>Boldness has genius, power and magic.
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>Joni Moyer
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>Hello everyone!
>
>I have the TSM database, recovery log, volume history, device
>configuration and drm plan replicated to our disaster recovery site.
>The TSM server is an AIX 5.3 server with TSM at 5.3.5.2.  At our test
>drill I tried to bring up TSM without restoring it from a database
>backup and it worked fine.  The only caveat was that I had to remove the
>library and path definitions to our ACSLS external library and our CDL
>library information from the device configuration file so that it looked
>as follows (We use a manual library & manual drives since we only use
>TSM to restore 2 servers now at disaster recovery.  By next year I hope
>to not need TSM at all.):
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>/* Device Configuration */
>DEFINE DEVCLASS DBB DEVTYPE=LTO FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C ESTCAPACITY=209715200K
>MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=1 PREFIX=ADSM
>LIBRARY=SL8500 WORM=NO DRIVEENCRYPTION=ALLOW DEFINE DEVCLASS DBBFILE
>DEVTYPE=FILE FORMAT=DRIVE MAXCAPACITY=66060288K
>MOUNTLIMIT=1 DIRECTORY=/tsmprod/db1backup SHARED=NO DEFINE DEVCLASS
>DR_LTO2 DEVTYPE=LTO FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C ESTCAPACITY=209715200K
>MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=5 PREFIX=ADSM
>LIBRARY=DRLIB WORM=NO DRIVEENCRYPTION=ALLOW DEFINE DEVCLASS LTO2
>DEVTYPE=LTO FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C ESTCAPACITY=209715200K
>MOUNTLIMIT=24 MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=1 PREFIX=ADSM LIBRARY=SL8500
>WORM=NO DRIVE ENCRYPTION=ALLOW DEFINE DEVCLASS LTO2_CDLA DEVTYPE=LTO
>FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=5
>PREFIX=ADSM LIBRARY=CDLA_PROD WORM=NO DRIVEENCRYPTION=ALLOW DEFINE
>DEVCLASS LTO2_CDLB DEVTYPE=LTO FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES
>MOUNTWAIT=60 MOUNTRETENTION=5 PREFIX=ADSM LIBRARY=CDLB_PROD WORM=NO
>DRIVEENCRYPTION=ALLOW DEFINE DEVCLASS LTO2_OFFSITE DEVTYPE=LTO
>FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C ESTCAPACITY=209715200K MOUNTLIMIT=DRIVES MOUNTWAIT=60
>MOUNTRETENTION=1 PREFIX=ADSM LIBRARY=DRLIB WORM=NO DRIVEENCRYPTION=ALLOW
>DEFINE SERVER TSMPROD COMMMETHOD=TCPIP HLADDRESS=157.154.47.18
>LLADDRESS=1500  SERVERPASSWORD=**********************************
>SET SERVERNAME TSMPROD
>SET SERVERPASSWORD ****************************************
>DEFINE LIBRARY DRLIB LIBTYPE=MANUAL
>DEFINE DRIVE DRLIB LTO1
>DEFINE PATH TSMPROD LTO1 SRCTYPE=SERVER DESTTYPE=DRIVE LIBRARY=DRLIB
>DEVICE=/dev/rmt0
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>I then followed the regular steps of the DRM plan Set DSMSERV_CONFIG Set
>DSMSERV_DIR Do not need to create, format and then initialize the
>database and log volumes Do not need to restore the server database from
>a database backup Start the server.
>Update the LTO2_OFFSITE device class so that it points to the drlib
>manual library.
>Define the remaining drives & paths.
>Register the licenses by running the LICENSE.REGISTRATION script created
>by the DRM plan.
>Update copy storage pool volumes so that they are ready for use by
>running the COPYSTGPOOL.VOLUMES.AVAILABLE script created by the DRM
>plan.
>Mark volumes destroyed in copy storage pools that didn't make it offsite
>to the vault by running COPYSTGPOOL.VOLUMES.DESTROYED script created by
>the DRM plan.
>Mark primary storage pool volumes as destroyed by running
>PRIMARY.VOLUMES.DESTROYED script created by the DRM plan.
>
>I'm just wondering if it's ok to do it this way and remove all of that
>information from the device configuration file such as the regular
>library definitions, drives, paths, etc. and still have this work?
>
>If anyone has any comments please let me know.  Thanks!
>
>********************************
>Joni Moyer
>Highmark
>Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966
>Fax: (717) 302-9826
>joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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