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[ADSM-L] AW: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup

2007-04-25 14:52:10
Subject: [ADSM-L] AW: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup
From: Stefan Holzwarth <stefan.holzwarth AT ADAC DOT DE>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:51:42 +0200
Richard, 

I would say you can do it good (TSM) or better as suposed by Orville.
I do not see any reason why TSM should not take advantage of the mirrored 
disk's for db reading.

Regards
Stefan Holzwarth

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] Im 
> Auftrag von Richard Sims
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 17:49
> An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff: Re: TSM only reads from COPY1 during DB backup
> 
> On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Orville Lantto wrote:
> 
> > Reads should be safe from mirrored volumes and are commonly done in
> > operating systems to load  balance.  Not taking advantage of the
> > available IO resource is wasteful and puts an unnecessarily
> > unbalanced load on an already IO stressed system.  It slows down db
> > backups too.
> 
> Then your issue is performance, rather than database voracity.
> This is addressed by the disk architecturing chosen for the TSM
> database, where raw logical volumes and RAID on top of high
> performance disks accomplishes that.  Complementary volume striping
> largely addresses TSM's symmetrical mirror writing and singular
> reading.  Whereas TSM's mirroring is an integrity measure rather then
> performance measure, you won't get full equivalence from that.
> Another approach, as seen in various customer postings, is to employ
> disk subsystem mirroring rather than TSM's application mirroring.  In
> that way you get full duality, but sacrifice the protections and
> recoverability which TSM offers.
> 
>     Richard Sims
>