Linux i/o schedulers and TSM
God morning, Have anyone done performance testing with different i/o schedulers and rhel 5 and TSM db, log and stgpools, and have a result they would like to share? Anyone with opinions regarding i/o schedulers or are we TSM admins happy with default settings?? //Henrik --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you
Re: synchronize a windows drive with a USB removable disk using TSM
This would possibly be a good thing to do for an offsite recovery server with access to replicated TSM data. One problem with using TSM for this is files that have been deleted from the original server. You'd need to determine which files have been deleted from the source server so you could do the same on your backup file system. Bob -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 2:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] synchronize a windows drive with a USB removable disk using TSM You probably can, but I'd be inclined to use something like robocopy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy) to achieve what your after Steven Langdale Global Information Services EAME SAN/Storage Planning and Implementation ( Phone : +44 (0)1733 584175 ( Mob: +44 (0)7876 216782 ΓΌ Conference: +44 (0)208 609 7400 Code: 331817 + Email: steven.langd...@cat.com Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@googlemail.com Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 25/04/2010 07:52 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] synchronize a windows drive with a USB removable disk using TSM Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 25/05/2010 Hi, Before making a full backup of drive D:\ in a Windows XP client, I have copied all D:\* to a removable USB disk (300GB). Drive D:\ is changing everyday and sends the incremental backup to TSM. Can I sync D:\ with above USB disk using TSM restore? Initially, d:\ and USB disk have identical contents, I need to sync them occasionally. Thanks. This electronic transmission and any documents accompanying this electronic transmission contain confidential information belonging to the sender. This information may be legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on or regarding the contents of this electronically transmitted information is strictly prohibited.
Domino TDP restore questions.
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Odd Linux Scheduler problem (v6.2 client)
I wanted to corroborate an observation: When I attempt to run dsmc on a box with no dsm.opt, it presents me with a warning about the omission, and soldiers on with running the program. When I attempt to run an incr from the scheduler, though, I get silent failure. Simply 'touch'ing the dsm.opt file (i.e. a zero-size file, no directives) permits the scheduler process to run normally, and of course obviates the warning at the command line. This was on an ubuntu box, Karmic, I think. Does this match your-all experiences? If so, I'm going to go do the PMR thing. It's silly that a warning condition should do this. - Allen S. Rout
Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has
Funny phrase that, shear amout of work. Unintentional pun? As in fleecing sheep? [RC] From: David Longo david.lo...@health-first.org To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/23/2010 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I bet a lot of people get extra counts for reasons you mentioned and related ones. David Longo Rick Adamson rickadam...@winn-dixie.com 4/23/2010 2:08 PM We just recently went through an IBM audit and were tasked with collecting this information on several hundred machines, some local and some remote. When I told my management that TSM does not collect this info he got our IBM rep on the phone for confirmation. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a way to get a near accurate count without having to worry about hyperthreading fudging my numbers. Intel makes, or made, a small utility call cpucount that does the job. With very little scripting it can gather the numbers. I just created a for loop that referenced a text file with the node names and ported it out to a cvs file. David if you can't find it let me know and I will see if I still have a copy. I STRONGLY suggest that anyone about to attempt this read the IBM license terms regarding PVU's. IBM has no compassion regarding the shear amount of work the it requires and they send third party auditors out to your site that only have the slightest clue what they are doing. In many situations they tried to double count our MS clusters (once for the physical nodes, and again for the virtual instance names. I explained it to them and when we got their analysis report...you guessed it, there it was. I should have known when they had that deer-in-the-headlights look on their face. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has We made it throught the ILMT install, but are not in production yet with it. The actual install wasn't that difficult, but the instructions leave much to be desired - a lot of words with little info. For example, it installs DB2 for it's db. Ok . . . I assume it has some built in backup system. Then I read a little comment that for backups refer to the DB2 documentation, and a link to the DB2 infocenter. We're an Oracle shop . . .no one here knows DB2. No help, no cheat sheet, no built in backup scripts - just go read the db2 manuals! One of my tasks now is to become a DB2 dba . . . what fun! (probably a good thing for our eventual migration to TSM v6) Another example . . .it's reporting the wrong units for a certain AIX model. You show the support guy the actual web page where the units for the server are listed, but you get nowhere. Rick Lindsay Morris lind...@tsmworks .COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager ads...@vm.marist Subject .EDU Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has 04/23/2010 11:41 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ads...@vm.marist .EDU There's ITLM, IBM Tivoli License Manager. It's kind of bear to install, I hear. (Has anybody done it?) But nobody else has a fully automated solution AFAIK. Contact me off-line and I can give you some other options. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David W Daniels/AC/VCU dwdan...@vcu.eduwrote: All, Does anyone know if TSM has the capability to count and report how many CPU'S aka processor(s) a server has? I'm asking because it SLA time and this is some of the information we would like and hopefully charge user departments for in regard to TSM support. Also if there's is another way to get this information automatically please share ** 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 - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have
Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has
Greetings, I led our team doing a TSM audit on a 2000 server environment about a year ago. The biggest headache I have ever had. There are so many exceptions for each different kind of servers. VMware servers, standalone Windows, NAS, Clusters, AIX Lpars in a sub-processor lpar. It took a couple months, and we still probably had some mistakes in it, but we got REALLY close. We just recently installed IBM License Metric Tool. The early versions were really bad, but the version we recently installed (7.5, I think) seems to work correctly. It even seems to count correctly the AIX sub-processor Lpars, which we thought would confuse it. Deploying it in a large environment will be a project, but it comes with a self-extracting installer that won't be too tough, once we script it. The only problem is that you have to set up a config file that defines where your ILMT server is, and then you have to push that out to each server before you run the installer on each host to install it. In the future we will make it part of our standard build, which will make it more seamless. But I believe that, once we get it deployed, it will really be less work than any other method of counting licenses would be. The other choice would be a capacity-based license. I understand IBM is starting to make these available. The hitch is that each license is individually negotiated with IBM, and you have to count your licenses with PVUs first to establish a baseline for calculating what a fair capacity-based license would be. This sounds like to me like everybody will end up paying a different price for TSM, depending on their mix of TSM clients when they establish their baseline, and what kind of negotiators they are. Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 Original Message Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has From: Robert Clark robert.cla...@usbank.com Date: Mon, April 26, 2010 4:04 pm To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Funny phrase that, shear amout of work. Unintentional pun? As in fleecing sheep? [RC] From: David Longo david.lo...@health-first.org To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/23/2010 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I bet a lot of people get extra counts for reasons you mentioned and related ones. David Longo Rick Adamson rickadam...@winn-dixie.com 4/23/2010 2:08 PM We just recently went through an IBM audit and were tasked with collecting this information on several hundred machines, some local and some remote. When I told my management that TSM does not collect this info he got our IBM rep on the phone for confirmation. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a way to get a near accurate count without having to worry about hyperthreading fudging my numbers. Intel makes, or made, a small utility call cpucount that does the job. With very little scripting it can gather the numbers. I just created a for loop that referenced a text file with the node names and ported it out to a cvs file. David if you can't find it let me know and I will see if I still have a copy. I STRONGLY suggest that anyone about to attempt this read the IBM license terms regarding PVU's. IBM has no compassion regarding the shear amount of work the it requires and they send third party auditors out to your site that only have the slightest clue what they are doing. In many situations they tried to double count our MS clusters (once for the physical nodes, and again for the virtual instance names. I explained it to them and when we got their analysis report...you guessed it, there it was. I should have known when they had that deer-in-the-headlights look on their face. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has We made it throught the ILMT install, but are not in production yet with it. The actual install wasn't that difficult, but the instructions leave much to be desired - a lot of words with little info. For example, it installs DB2 for it's db. Ok . . . I assume it has some built in backup system. Then I read a little comment that for backups refer to the DB2 documentation, and a link to the DB2 infocenter. We're an Oracle shop . . .no one here knows DB2. No help, no cheat sheet, no built in backup scripts - just go read the db2 manuals! One of my tasks now is to become a DB2 dba . . . what fun! (probably a good thing for our eventual migration to TSM v6) Another example . . .it's reporting the wrong
