ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies

2016-09-15 10:45:14
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] protect pool plus replicate node equals poor replication efficiencies
From: Karel Bos <tsm.wad AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:43:34 +0200
Doc states only meta data should be replicated in that phase. Do you really
see the 1tb go over the line or is it just being reported?

Op 15 sep. 2016 16:33 schreef "Nixon, Charles D. (David)" <
cdnixon AT carilionclinic DOT org>:

> We opened a ticket related to long replication times in a container pool
> after replication takes place, and got an answer that 'we can recreate your
> problem but it is likely working as designed' even though it's contrary to
> documentation.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> -Two TSM servers at 7.1.5
> -Single client going to a single container.  Client backs up 12TB a night
> and after dedupe/compression, we see a 1TB change rate (approximately).
> -Once the backup is complete, we run a protect pool.  It's expected that
> this process will ship 1TB to the DR site.  -Protect completes successfully.
> -a replnode is issued against the node and TSM spends the next 4 hours
> replicating data to the DR site
>
> Support confirmed that the amount of data replicated in a replnode command
> is the same, regardless of the protect pool command status.  However, the
> documentation leads me to be that if you have already protected the pool,
> the replnode should be a metadata only transfer.
>
> So while we are able to transfer and complete the processes, it seems to
> 'cost' us quite a bit in both IO and WAN usage to do so using containers,
> defeating the point of using containers to reduce replication costs.  Any
> ideas as to what is going on?
>
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