If it helps, we have taken random volumes off-line when an array restart was required. We also had our AIX admin unmount the volumes. Once the array was on-line we reversed the changes and all was good. If possible test it, we last did this with TSM 5.3 and probably AIX 5.1. Expect many alerts if TSM is running a process that needs data from the off-line volumes.
Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do? Thanks. That pretty much confirms that OFFLINE is useless to me since I don't want to loose the data, if at all possible. 19TB is a lot to restore from dozens of offsite tapes. Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Rick Harderwijk <rick.harderw...@gmail.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/04/2012 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do? Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Zoltan, Update volume wherestatus=offline would mean to do something to volumes that have a status of offline. I'd think you would have to use update volume * access=unavailable wherestgpool=<SANSTGVOLUMEPOOL> wherestatus=offline Output from help update volume: UNAVailable Specifies that neither client nodes nor server processes can access files stored on the volume. Before making a random access volume unavailable, you must vary the volume offline. After you make a random access volume unavailable, you cannot vary the volume online. If you make a sequential access volume unavailable, the server does not attempt to mount the volume. If the volume being updated is an empty scratch volume that had an access mode of offsite, the server deletes the volume from the database. Cheers, Rick On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zfor...@vcu.edu>wrote: > A recent SAN system upgrade sort-of killed 19TB of storage volumes, making > them "read only". > > Since we are having pathing issues, plus we need to perform fsck on these > volumes due to the journal being screwed-up, I wanted to disable use of > these disk volumes without killing the server, if possible. > > When I look in the book for UPDATE VOLUME WHERESTATUS=OFFLINE, all it > says is Update volumes with a status of OFFLINE . What exactly does that > mean? What happens to the contents? > > > Zoltan Forray > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.