Questions around emulated 3584 and TSM.

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Clark
I'm asking these questions for a friend. (Environment is TSM 5.5 server on Linux x86_64, with EMC EDL, and 50GB tapes..) If a VTL is setup to emulate a 3584, will TSM have problems if the volume count in the library is higher than a real 3584 can hold? (More than 4096 volumes for example.) (I've

Re: partial VM images.

2010-07-21 Thread Rick Adamson
Just an FYI: changing disks to "independent" will also result in them being excluded from any VMware snapshots as well. ~Rick Adamson Jax, FL. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul van Dongen Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:58

Re: partial VM images.

2010-07-21 Thread Paul van Dongen
Hello Steve, I did something like this some time ago. I had the Vmware admin set the database disks as "Independent", as this type of disk is not included in the VCB snapshots. I used a script to interface with vcbmounter but I think the BACKUP VM command would work as well. Regards, Paul

Re: MOVE DRM & CHECKIN LIBVOL

2010-07-21 Thread Lee, Gary D.
Move drm for bringing back volumes creates a command file which is essentially a macro containing the commands you would like to be executed on the return of a volume. Withihn this command is substituted the volume name. For example, our return volumes script is as follows: Dsmadmc -server=serve