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Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volume assistance

2009-08-13 13:52:52
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volume assistance
From: Shawn Drew <shawn.drew AT AMERICAS.BNPPARIBAS DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:51:28 -0400
TSM 5.5.3

For some reason, it seems to ignore the maxsize setting.  I've set the
devclass to 50G, but the volumes seem to randomly choose when they are
full.  Collocation is disabled.  Here is an excerpt from a q vol. Strange.


TSM-WB_LM.BFS.250165435      VV_VTL_C1       WBVV-DEVC         22.6 G
100.0       Full
TSM-WB_LM.BFS.250173350      VV_VTL_C1       WBVV-DEVC        342.2 M
100.0       Full
TSM-WB_LM.BFS.250173351      VV_VTL_C1       WBVV-DEVC        146.8 M
100.0       Full
TSM-WB_LM.BFS.250174716      VV_VTL_C1       WBVV-DEVC          9.7 G
100.0       Full
TSM-WB_LM.BFS.250176282      VV_VTL_C1       WBVV-DEVC          9.4 G
100.0       Full



tsm: TSM3500>q devc WBVV-DEVC

Device        Device         Storage     Device        Format      Est/Max
     Mount
Class         Access            Pool     Type                     Capacity
     Limit
Name          Strategy         Count                                  (MB)

---------     ----------     -------     ---------     ------     --------
    ------
WBVV-DEVC     Sequential           1     SERVER                   51,200.0
        10


Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn,
   In your virtual volume devclass definition you might try to set a
maxsize equal to that of the real storage behind it.  This should
prevent stacking.



Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Shawn Drew
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:52 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volume assistance

We started using Virtual Volumes earlier this year for some new branch
locations with no local, long-term storage.
As it works, multiple virtual volumes will get stacked into one "real"
sequential volume.

The problem is that periodically, a reclamation process will require two
volumes that happen to be stacked together.   On the destination side,
it
cancels one of the mounts with a  "being preempted by higher priority
operation", then the whole reclamation fails and the first volume is
marked "read-only"

As I write this an idea come to the fore.  Perhaps I should be using the
RECLAIMSTGpool feature.   Does anyone else have this problem?  Is
RECLAIMSTGpool the standard workaround?


Regards,
Shawn
________________________________________________
Shawn Drew


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