Thanks for the information.  It seems that SANergy gets fairly bad press
on this forum, or are there success stories out there too?  And the
software seems ancient (last release in 2002?)  Is it still a viable
solution?

I was hoping that a FILE library shared and managed by the TSM server
would handle locking, but this kind of storage is new to me.

Thanks... Ken



From:
Gary Bowers <gbowers AT ITRUS DOT COM>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
05/05/2010 09:17 PM
Subject:
Re: disk / file pool on SAN without SANergy or GPFS?



In short no.  Sanergy is what allows you to share the filesystem
amongst multiple servers.  GPFS is a an alternative to SANergy that
also provides the file and block locking necessary to share a physical
device among multiple hosts.

I may be wrong, but I believe that the only two supported LAN free
protocols are GPFS and SANergy.  If TSM supported CIFS or NFS shares
as stgpools it might be able to do something similar with a filer, but
I'm pretty confident that is not supported.  You definitely cannot do
it with iSCSI, because that is a block device, not a file share.

Hope this helps.  I have not done a SANergy install in 4 years, so
things may have changed.

Gary
Itrus Technologies

On May 5, 2010, at 5:30 PM, WHEDA TSM wrote:

> Hello... we will be implementing an iSCSI SAN in the near future.
> The TSM
> server needs more disk storage pool space.  I want to build new
> storage
> pools (FILE type, but perhaps also DISK type) on SAN storage.  I don't
> need SANergy for this... correct?
>
> Some of the TSM clients that will reside on the SAN would benefit from
> LAN-free backups.  All TSM clients and the TSM server are Windows
> 2003 /
> 2008, we have no other client platforms.
>
> Without using SANergy or GPFS, can I create a FILE type storage pool
> on
> SAN storage and define a shared FILE type library so that the TSM
> server
> and the TSM SAN storage agents can both write to the pool?
>
> Thanks... Ken