Eliza, Per Tivoli, yes it is with a SANergy MDC (on NT or Sun) and SANergy clients on all of your TSM clients that you want to have backup to a SAN shared disk pool.
It is documented at http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage_mgr/storage_mgr_concepts.html Steffan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliza Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:39 AM Subject: Re: HELP with TSM and SAN > What I am trying to achieve is to have all SAN and non-SAN clients backup to a > disk storage pool that is on the SAN and then migrate to the SAN-attahced > 3494. We will have 5 SAN clients and 300+ non-SAN clients with only 6 tape > drives. I don't want the 5 SAN clients to tie up the tape drives with LAN-free > backup during the backup window. The Exchange backup alone takes 2 hours. > Is this doable with a AIX TSM server? > > Eliza > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > > Eliza Lau > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:46 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: HELP with TSM and SAN > > > > > > > > 1. LAN FREE B/A is available with the Storage Agent in TSM 4.2 > > > > > > 2. SANergy MDC cannot run on AIX - WIN2k, WINNT, Solaris, Red Hat and > > > SuSe. > > > > Thanks Adolph. This clears things up. But there is indeed a SANergy > > client for AIX. The Tivoli rep just quoted me a license. It requires > > 130 points. Then why can't I run the SANergy MDC > > on a W2K box to export the disk storage pool to the AIX SANergy client > > where the TSM server is. From this disk storage pool backup files will > > migrate to the 3494. The W2K box and the AIX TSM server will both be on > > the SAN. > > > > Eliza, why would you want to do this? What are you trying to achieve? > > Maybe we should take this off the list server. My email is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > 3. The non-SAN clients can backup to a SAN or non-SAN disk pool. The > > TSM > > > server writes to the disk pool, the client does not. If the TSM server > > > has access to the SAN then I would have all of the 3494 tapes attached > > > to the SAN. Partitioning the library is not required. All of my > > clients > > > with 3494 libraries and SAN, have all of the drives on the SAN. > > > > > > 4. Server Free backup will require the use of a San Data Gateway - > > this > > > is a hardware box- The current box available from IBM is a 2108-G07. > > > > > > 5. Server Free means both the TSM Server and the Client are not doing > > > i/o to the disk or tape for backup purposes. This comes with TSM 5.1. > > > Initially this will be very limited in the clients that are supported > > > and the TSM server platform. > > > > > > Adolph Kahan > > > > > > > > > > Eliza Lau > > Virginia Tech Computing Center > > 1700 Pratt Drive > > Blacksburg, VA 24060 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
