Two oddities I notice so far: 1). I created a devclass with vola-vole then started the copypool creations. I subsequently added volf. While it has created volumes in volf, only a few. It seems to use a roundrobin algorithm and since it had created a lot of volumes before the devclass def was updated to include volf, volf has gotten little use.
2).TSMMANAGER daily reports shows write errors to many of the volumes. I think this is generated when the 'volume' is full, because otherwise I can view the contents of the volume and the scheduled copyool creations completed succ4essfully over the weekend. Space 'Volume' usage imbalance: /dev/lvvgsata2 1042022400 25190448 98% 260 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vola /dev/lvvgsata3 1042022400 29388856 98% 258 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy volb /dev/lvvgsata4 1042022400 20906952 98% 262 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy voc /dev/lvvgsata5 1042022400 8396816 100% 263 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vold /dev/lvvgsata6 1042022400 25190448 98% 259 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vole /dev/lvvgsata1 1042022400 1037871320 1% 17 1% /var/dispool/satacopy volf >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/06 2:08 PM >>> This looks good, but I would still create these volumes using define vol numberofvol rather than letting TSM create them. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] copypools on disk on AIX? Yes, thank you. After posting my question I went to the 5.3 Admin Ref and saw I needed a file type device class for copypools. Defined then, changed the script, and since TSM saw them as a new copypool it copied all the data over, over this past weekend. about 2 TB of copypool data. We just have the large volumes ( that are RAID5) on a DS4800. TSM auto creates the volumes: /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 0.0 Empty oc/00008733.BFS /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 77.1 Filling oc/00008738.BFS /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 51.4 Filling oc/0000873E.BFS /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 98.6 Filling oc/00008743.BFS /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 98.6 Filling oc/00008747.BFS >From AIX mounted filesystem view: /dev/lvvgsata2 1042022400 0 100% 266 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vola /dev/lvvgsata3 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy volb /dev/lvvgsata4 1042022400 0 100% 266 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy voc /dev/lvvgsata5 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vold /dev/lvvgsata6 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% /var/diskpool/satacopy vole /dev/lvvgsata1 1042022400 1037871320 1% 17 1% /var/dispool/satacopy volf >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/06 12:24 PM >>> We tried file device class with our onsite pool with disappointing results. I believe the problem was our decision not to stripe across LUN's. This would have made performance much better, at the cost of a LUN failure causing more damage than if we used them indicidually. Now, I can't remember the last time I saw a LUN failure, but YMMV. We will probably address this issue again when the decision is made to move our copy pool to disk. On 12/1/06, Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are migrateing our copypool from cartridge to a DS4800. > > From the manuals copypools only support FILE type devices. > > My assumptions ( on AIX) are: > > -I create logical volumes and file systems -Define the device class > -TSM then creates the files in the filesystem > > Anyone ever done this with copypools on AIX? > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/06 9:56 AM >>> > Know of anyone using a vaulting service with transmissions over the > Internet with TSM? 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