Don't forget to use enough disk space on the master, becaurse you have to
share the 5 drives with all tsm-servers.
On the tsm master, the tsm server is 1 client, so you can't use collocation
per node, but only per tsm server.
All the data goes twice over a network; from clientnode to tsm server to tsm
master, so a dedicated network between tsm servers is a pre.

Is there a problem to backup just all the clients to the tsm master? With
only 5 drives i cannot expect that the site is too big for 1 server...

Regards,
Maurice


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Wiedmann" <Bernd.Wiedmann AT GEK DOT DE>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: [ADSM-L] enterprise setup


hi everyone,

we are planning to do some enterprise configuration.
Now, what I have in mind is something like this:

1 TSM-Master-Server, which acts as configuration manager,
  central event-logger, and administration-server. 5 drives
  in a storagetek library.
  maybe hot standby.

n instances of TSM-Server, which serve the nodes.
  but, this TSM-Server won't have any tape or disk-storage.
  because they send all data to the master-server via virtual volumes.

This configuration has the big advantage that the instances don't need
drives,
or something like that.

So here are my questions:
Does anyone has such a environment?
Does anyone know any pitfalls?
Does that concept make sense to you?

thanks in advance

best regards
Bernd Wiedmann





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