Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread John Schneider
You may have stated this earlier in the thread, but could you clarify this statement? > I've double-checked the zoning, and everything seems as it should be > (server and disk in one zone and server and tape drives in another zone). Does the server have separate HBAs for the disk and tape traff

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Kelly
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Chet Osborn wrote: > Thanks for the replies, but no luck yet. Another possibility...have a look at APAR IC46349: When running a move data or migration to a collocated storage pool bad performance may be seen, with 5.3.1.0 server. . The bad performance appears to be trigg

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread John Monahan
First I would change your server options to these (the max values have increased in more recent TSM versions): movebatchsize 1000 movesizethresh 2048 Also, are you using a file devclass or a regular diskpool on the SATA drives? Is it raw space or JFS or JFS2? Earlier today someone sent out a lin

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread David Longo
You can also check drive firmware versions on the control panel. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/05 5:28 PM >>> Someone co

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is one way to check whether your firmware is up-to-date or not. If you have not assigned your library IP address/DNS entry, do so. You can then access your 3584 via a web URL line. In our case, I type 3584_1 (DNS name) on the URL line, hit enter, and like

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Chet Osborn
Thanks for the replies, but no luck yet. The data being migrated all belonged to a single node, and only two tape mounts were involved. The drive firmware is up to date. I'll be damned if I can figure out how to determine what the 3584 library firmware level is or how to download it. The device

Quarterly update just released for the TSM IBM Support Assistant tool.

2005-10-20 Thread Darrius Plantz
The TSM development staff has just finished a quarterly "refresh" with many new updates to a tool that will assist Tivoli Storage Manager admins with their support issues. Download Your Complimentary Copy of the IBM Support Assistant Plug-in for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager IBM® Support Assistan

Re: ISC and logcopy error

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
When encountering problems like this, it helps to see that actual commands that the Admin Center sent to the TSM server. The commands appear in the activity log. In this case, what is happening is that the Admin Center is implicitly incuding the FORMATSIZE option along with the DEFINE LOGCOPY, on

Re: Canceled TSM Admin center seminar

2005-10-20 Thread Darrius Plantz
Hi John, I contacted the admin for these STE calls and she told me the class has been re-scheduled for December 13th. Check this URL peridically for updates: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/supp_tech_exch.html Date:Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:19:06 -0700 From:John Black <[

Re: Backing up VMware

2005-10-20 Thread William Boyer
You can install the client in the virtual machine OS, then it functions like normal backing up the filesystems. You can also install the TSM client on the Vmware console using a Linux client. Then if you take the virtual machine(s) down you can backup the physical VMDK file that makes up the virt

Backing up VMware

2005-10-20 Thread Joni Moyer
Hello, Our environment will soon include backing up VMware. Is anyone currently backing up such an environment? And if so, are there any best practices or how to guides with using a TSM client? Any help is appreciated! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(

Tape Drive Sans

2005-10-20 Thread Richard Rhodes
Hi Everyone . . . expecially SAN experts . . . . I have a 3494 library with 3590H drives that connect to a AIX system via SAN. The SAN switch is a Brocade. Below is the switchshow cmd for this switch. The F-Ports are the AIX adapters while the L-Ports are the 3590 drives. There is no zoning on t

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Kelly
Another factor to consider: does the tape pool in question have collocation turned on? If so, then depending on the number of tapes in the pool, the type of collocation in effect and the number of client nodes or filespaces to be migrated, there could be a very large number of tape mounts occurrin

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
It also wouldn't hurt to verify that your library and drive code (firmware) are up-to-date. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Skinner Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Perf

Re: Admin Center

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
> Is there any word when the 5.3 Admin Center might be supported > running on 64bit AIX? When ISC supports 64-bit. ISC release 6.0.1, targeted for availability later this month, includes 64-bit support. See the 5.3.2 Admin Center README file for additional info. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM

Re: TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Jim Skinner
I believe the first thing to check is the zoning of the fiber channel network. TSM server and disk in one zone and in a different zone put tsm server and tape. We had a similar problem. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/05 11:22 AM >>> Hi, We're recently connected a 3584 with one L52 frame containing 2

Re: ISC and number format error

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Dirk (and Paul, who mentioned similar problem with CANCELPROCESS), Have a look at APAR IC46141. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivol

TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives

2005-10-20 Thread Chet Osborn
Hi, We're recently connected a 3584 with one L52 frame containing 2 LTO-2 fiber attached drives to our AIX server. We'll be using FAStT SATA disk as a primary storage pool and migrating from disk to tape. Can anyone with a similar setup provide any statistics on how this works in the real world

Re: ISC and number format error

2005-10-20 Thread Paul van Dongen
Hello, I got something like this today, only I had no way to correct the command. When I tried to cancel a process via ISC, it returned an error stating that I could not do "CANCEL PROCESS 4,189" Had to go to the old friend CLI instead. Regards, Paul van Dongen -Origina

TSM Archive Restore Question

2005-10-20 Thread Nick Saund
Dear All, We currently have an issue, the archive log history on TSM has been deleted, however we know the files exists on the tapes somewhere. Is there any mechanism we can you use to recover this information. So TSM is able to identify what tapes are required for a restore? We currently us

Creating Backupsets

2005-10-20 Thread Jeff Waiter
Hi All I would like to know if its possible to schedule backupset creations? If so how do you go about doing it?We have decided to go with a backupset solution because of the single tape drive complexities with normal TSM Backup. We are trying our best to get a working solution for this s

ISC and logcopy error

2005-10-20 Thread Dirk Kastens
Another error: Using the ISC it's not possible to create a mirror of a log volume using raw logical volumes. Each time I select "Mirror this volume" and specify the path of the rlv (/dev/rtsmlog3) the process ends with the error message: ANR7862W File Already exists when creating volume /dev/rtsm

ISC and number format error

2005-10-20 Thread Dirk Kastens
Hi, I was just using the ISC to extend the size of the recovery log. I created new log volumes and when I selected the "Extend or Reduce..." menu, the next table has been prefilled with the following information: "Expand recovery log by up to 8,184 MB", and the number in the entry field is shown

AW: [ADSM-L] AW: [ADSM-L] disk layout for db and log

2005-10-20 Thread Gloeer, Kirsten
Hi, at the Oxford TSM Symposium there was a contribution by Jarrett Potts about improving performance: http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/papers/Finding%20Performance%20Bottlenecks%20in%20Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager%20Environments%20(Jarrett%20Potts).pdf We use raw logical db (16 GB) and log vol