Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
What seems like not that long ago we ran our databases on JBOD disks (disks if 250m to 1gb). We setup oracle per design - logs on one disk, db files on another, redo logs on another, archive logs on others (aix mirrored pairs). Then indexes would pound it's disk, but other disk sat there not

TDP for Exchange 2010 7.1.x

2015-07-15 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Hello, Does anyone have any idea if for TDP Exchange backups, one can include/exclude based on LOG or Database file specifications. I'm looking for a way to tell TSM not to dedup on LOG Files, but to process Database files only. FYI, I've been running source-side dedup on exchange for

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Eric, Besides the items you have highlighted so far (dsmc q opt, select * from backups), what makes you think this file system is not being backed up? Are there not TSM related logs (dsmsched.log) you could look at? Also, what does the admin command q filespace kl1241m3 show you? I would think

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Stef Coene
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 09:31:10 you wrote: Hi guys! I have a Linux client with Cristie TBMR installed on it. TBRM requires that /dev is backed up which is normally excluded by the Linux BA client. To force this backup I need to add the virtualmountpoint parameter to the dsm.sys file which I

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Hi Andy! /dev Is not in the list returned from the q filespace kl1241m3. No error messages in the output from the backup job related to /dev too... Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Remco Post
on AIX more LUNs/hdisks is better. There are some resources allocated per hdisk, where you want more. Set up 4 or 8 VG's for database. Growing database filesystems is easier than adding more. Op 15 jul. 2015, om 16:23 heeft David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.edu het volgende geschreven: Same

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Hi David! Nope, still not working... tsm: AMSE2select * from backups where node_name='KL1241M3' and hl_name='/dev' or hl_name='/DEV' ANR2034E SELECT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. I guess I will have to open a PMR for it. Thanks for your help! Kind regards, Eric

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Huebner, Andy
Each VG will be 2 or 4 LUNs from SVC. I am not worried about the logs and storage pools. Only the DB. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Barkes, Jason Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
The concurrency I'm aware of is at the hdisk/lun level. There's a num_cmd_elems at on the fcs adapter which we set to 2k, and then queue_depth on the hdisk. That's why spreading I/O across as many hdisks/luns as possible is advantageous. Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread David Bronder
Same number of LUNs in fewer VGs, or fewer LUNs, too? The queuing concern makes it sound like fewer LUNs. If so, as Rick says, that's also where your I/O concurrency would suffer. If it's the same number of LUNs, using one VG per LUN makes it easier to isolate each LV to each PV rather than

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Hi Stef! Our Linux guys tell me that /dev is not a filesystem but a directory. That's why it's not in the output from the mount command, nor in the output from the df command. The content is indeed dynamically build up during boot, but the TBMR manual specifically states that it should be

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Hi David! We don't use the TSM scheduler, we use a third party scheduler. So every backup is a new dsmc session which should pick up all dsm.sys changes. It's a RedHat 6 server with the 7.1.2.0 TSM client installed. Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Huebner, Andy
He claims there is a queuing issue with too many at the HBA. I guess I missed that the last 12 years of being a storage/TSM admin. I told him the theory of using many was to allow more concurrency. Before we build I just want make sure this is not a mistake that cannot be easily fixed.

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Barkes, Jason
Hi, Sorry David I don't understand the VG's are cheap statement. Your Volume groups are made up of 1 or more hdisks provided locally or from the SAN. I've split my VG's into 5 types of VGs Dbvg - Databases Logvg-Logs Instvg -Instance Bkvg- DB Backup Stgvg - Disk storage

Re: Virtualmountpoint not working

2015-07-15 Thread David Ehresman
Andy is correct that in a select from the backups tables the '/dev' will be the filespace_name and not the hl_name. But the '/dev' should show in the q filespace. Did you restart dsmcad and/or dsmc sched after updateing the dsm.sys file? Is the dsm.sys in the default location or is it

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread David Ehresman
VGs are cheap. Why does your AIX admin want to reduce the number of VGs? David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 9:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Disk

Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Huebner, Andy
I have an AIX admin that wants to build my new TSM server using two VGs for the database (6 file systems) and one VG for the various logs. We currently have 6 VGs for the DB and 3 VGs for the logs. Each VG contains 1 file system. The DB is about 375GB and the new hardware is a P8. No TSM

Re: Disk layout for AIX

2015-07-15 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
With your current vg setup you are dedicating one or more luns to each vg. The good is dedicated resources of that lun (iops+capacity) in each vg. But the converse is also true, you _only_ have the dedicated resources of that lun in the vg. If you max out the resources of a vg and others are