Nick,;
Check out Redbook SG24-6679 - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered
Environment. The date's a little old, but the concepts haven't changed.
Nick Cassimatis
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/21/2008
03:44:37 PM:
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> Clustering TSM servers?
>
> Nick Laflamme
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> to:
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> ADSM-L
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> 08/21/2008 04:08 PM
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager".
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> How common is it for sites to cluster TSM servers?
>
> I'm looking for my next TSM position and have found at least one
> situation, perhaps two, where the would-be client wants TSM
> administrators who are familiar with CSM in an AIX/p-series
> environment. As far as I can tell, that implies setting up the TSM
> servers to fail-over so that if one fails, a hot-spare immediately
> covers for it. I've never heard of this, and I've worked in a couple
> of large, multi-TSM server environments.
>
> My working theory is that someone took an AIX administrator set of
> requirements as a template and didn't remove enough extraneous
> buzzwords, but if more sites than I realize are clustering TSM
> servers, I guess I should know that, too.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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