AIX TSM Centera

[spmcant]

Hello ALL

I am trying to use the centera for long term archive with TSM on AIX and was wondering if anyone is doing that or has some information to share.

We have went to an all disk solution so we have no tapes in our environment. We have CX700's for disk pool storage and replicate those to our DR Site. But do not want to use the CX700 for archive storgae prefer the Centera which is also replicated.

I realize I need an AIX client , I have seen info for Solaris tools and Windows tools that use centeraping, centerverify and a centera viewer.

I have followed the TSM Redbook configuration and have a pool/special management class set up. When TSM tries to connect to the centera for a server DS5 I get the errors listed below:



Environment

AIX 5.2 64 bit

TSM 5.2.3.4 64 bit

TSM Client 5.2.3.4

Centera

I can connect to the centera from my desktop the CenterViewer is 3.2



7/08/05 15:35:35 ANR0406I Session 193352 started for node DS5 (AIX) (Tcp/Ip 10.11.90.77(41210)). (SESSION: 193352)

07/08/05 15:35:54 ANR8340I CENTERA volume 00000E20.CNT mounted. (SESSION:193352)

07/08/05 15:35:54 ANR0511I Session 193352 opened output volume 00000E20.CNT.

(SESSION: 193352)

07/08/05 15:35:54 ANR2544E Unable to open the centera device at hla

DS5 (AIX) - error on output storage device. (SESSION:

193352)

07/08/05 15:36:39 ANR2544E Unable to open the centera device at hla

10.11.90.100. (SESSION: 193352)

07/08/05 15:36:39 ANR0523W Transaction failed for session 193352 for node

DS5 (AIX) - error on output storage device. (SESSION:

193352)

 

[chad_small]

Are you doing LAN-Free to disk? Or is this just a SAN attached array to the TSM server? I have done LAN-Free to disk and the configuration has to be perfect or it just wont work.

 

[spmcant]

We are not doing any LANFREE backups. It is a single TSM Server that is SAN attached. We have 15 TeraBytes of SAN Storage for the TSM Server and our disk pools are out on the 15 TeraBytes. WE have 7 dsikpools ranging from 1 TeraByte to 5 TeraBytes. The diskpools sre mirrored/replicated to our DR Site. WE would like to use the Centera for archive storage it is network attached.



Storage Pool Name: CENTERA

Storage Pool Type: Primary

Device Class Name: CENTERA_POOL1

Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0

Pct Util: 100.0



Device Class Name: CENTERA_POOL1

Device Access Strategy: Sequential

Storage Pool Count: 1

Device Type: CENTERA

Format:

Est/Max Capacity (MB):

Mount Limit: 20

Minimum Capacity: 20,480



Policy Domain Name: WIN

Policy Set Name: ACTIVE

Mgmt Class Name: CENTERRA_MC

Default Mgmt Class ?: No

Description: Centerra Archive MC

Space Management Technique: None

Auto-Migrate on Non-Use: 0

Migration Requires Backup?: Yes

Migration Destination: CENTERA

 

[ivi77]

hi,



you need to define the HLA parameter in the centera devclass

this looks like

High-level Address: 10.4.4.5,10.4.4.6?tsm.pea



the ip adresses are reflection the access addresses of on centera cluster

the pea (pool entry authorization) file



if anonymous connect is forbidden (recommended) you need to create a profile with

specific access rights and a pea file for this profile (centera tools)



releases before 5.2.6 could have case sensitivity problems for the pea file definition.